Sublime

In one of the Jataka tales, mythical teaching stories based on the Buddha’s previous lifetimes,

Tantrasāra

Danu (Anu and Ana) is one of the very oldest earth goddesses and is the matriarch of the Tuatha dé Danann. She is also the mother and daughter of the Dagda and possibly another aspect of the Morrigan.

Tanakh (an acronym for Torah, or Pentateuch; Nevi’im, or Prophets; and Ketuvim, or Writings).

Today, we tend to see cremation as a reasonably inexpensive way of avoiding the cost of a coffin, gravestone and permanent grave. But many communities in the world still see it in a more traditional light, as a process by which the soul is released from the body by the flames. Because of these beliefs, funeral pyres were often placed close by

According to Geshe-la, the chance of taking a human rebirth was as remote as that of a blind turtle who surfaces only once in a hundred years inserting its neck through a golden yoke

The word nirvana points to the state of a fire that has gone out. The Buddha often described our present world as a house on fire, and living beings as burning up with passions. To achieve the goal of Buddhist practice meant to "cool down" and put out these flames of suffering. However, later Buddhist thinkers such as the composers of a text called

Lao-tzu gives the following description of Tao in his celebrated Tao Teh Ching:3 There is something formless yet complete That existed before heaven and earth. How still! how empty! Dependent on nothing, unchanging, All pervading, unfailing. One may think of it as the mother of all things under heaven. I do not know its name, But I call it