The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (429 page)

Book of the Dead
:

see
TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD
.

 
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(Chin.,
Huangti nei-ching
, ‘The Inner Classic of the Yellow Emperor’). Compiled sometime during the Han era (206 BCE–220 CE), this work, consisting of two parts (the
Su-wen
or ‘Candid Questions’ and the
Ling-shu
or ‘Spiritual Pivot’), expounds a comprehensive theory of medicine based on systems of ‘correspondence’, ‘correlation’, or ‘resonance’ among various parts and aspects of the human person, and between those and other parts and aspects of the larger world.

 
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(1829–1912).
Founder and first General of the
Salvation
Army. His White-chapel ‘Christian Mission’ changed its name in 1878 to the ‘Salvation Army’. A strong advocate of rousing music (and of denying to the
devil
all the best tunes), he also introduced ‘the standard of the London cab-horse’, pointing out that many had to live on less money than was expended on maintaining cab-horses: the standard of the London taxi produces a similar result.

 
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Borobudur
.

The largest of Buddhist monuments, situated in mid-Java, probably built in the 9th cent. CE. The whole structure is believed to represent the Buddhist cosmology as a
ma
ala
, successive levels corresponding to stages on the path. The meaning of the name Borobudur is unclear.

 
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Bosatsu
(abbr. of Jap.,
bodaisatta
)
.

Jap. equivalent of Skt.,
bodhisattva
; also a title of respect given by emperors to outstanding monks, the first instance being
Gy
gi
.

 
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