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Concise Dictionary of Religion

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LANKVATARA STRA:

LAO TZU (6th century B.C.):

LAUD, William (1573-1645):

LAW, William (1686-1761):

LAWRENCE, Brother (1605-1691):

LEACH, Ronald Edmund (1910-1987):

LEE, Ann (1736-1784):

LEE, Witness (?):

LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm, Baron von (1646-1716):

LENIN, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924):

LESSING, Gotthold Ephraim (1729-1781):

LÉVI-BRUHL, Lucien (1857-1939):

LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude (1908-):

LEVIRATE MARRIAGE:

LEWIS, Clive Staples (1898-1963):

LIBERAL PROTESTANTISM:

LIEH-TZU (4th century B.C.):

LIVINGSTONE, David (1813-1873):

LLOYD-JONES, David Martyn (1899-1981):

LOCKE, John (1632-1704):

LOGICAL POSITIVISM:

LONERGAN, Bernard (1904-1984):

LOSSKY, Nikolai (1870-1965):

LOSSKY, Vladimir (1903-1958):

LOU, Tseng-Tsiang (1871-1949):

LOVEJOY, Arthur Oncken (1873-1962):

LOYOLA, Ignatius (1495-1556):

LUKE (1st century):

LUTHER, Martin (1483-1546):

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T'IEN-T'AI:

an influential branch of Chinese BUDDHISM founded in the sixth century by CHIH-I which based its teachings on the LOTUS SUTRA and the teachings of NAGARJUNA who emphasized the totality of BEING thus identifying the parts with the whole. It declined as a result of persecution in the ninth century but not before it has spread its message to Korea and Japan.