The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2747 page)

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Yotae
.
Korean for
tath
gata
.
Yotzer
(Heb., ‘He creates’). The Jewish
benedictions
which frame the
Shema‘
. In the plural (Yotzerot) it stands for all the liturgical hymns (
piyyutim
) chanted during the morning service.
Young, Brigham
(Mormon leader in 19th cent.):
Yüan-ch’i
(Chin., ‘primordial breath’). The fundamental energy in which
yin and yang
are still closely interactive in producing the universe. The yüan-chi is now dispersed, but can be summoned together again in the
Taoist
breathing exercises which distribute it to the whole body.
Yuan-chueh-ching
(Skt.,
Pur
a-buddha S
tra
; Jap.,
Engaku-kyo
). ‘The S
tra of Perfect Enlightenment’, a Ch’an/Zen s
tra supposedly translated into Chinese by Buddhatr
ta in 693 (but it is not certain that there was a Skt. original). The
S
tra
tells how twelve
bodhisattvas
(including
Mañju
ri
and
Samantabhadra
) are instructed on the nature of perfect enlightenment.

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