The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (400 page)

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(Skt., ‘suchness of existents’). In Buddhism, the true nature, as opposed to the appearance, of the manifest world. It is ‘that which really is’, in contrast to all that is transient, and thus in
Mah
y
na
, it is the
buddha-nature
.
Bhuvane
vara
(‘Lord of the world’, title of
iva)
:
B
b
.
Honorific title for Sikh women, e.g. B
b
N
nak
, Gur
N
nak's
elder sister.

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