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    Siming (Chinese: 司命; pinyin: Sīmìng) refers to a Chinese deity or deified functionary of that title who makes fine adjustments to human fate, with various...
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  • Siming may refer to: Siming District, an urban district of Xiamen, Fujian, China Siming (deity), a deity or title thereof of the Director of Fate or Master...
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    consider it as the "weapon of the deity". Finding correspondences with Albanian folk beliefs and practices, the Illyrian Sun-deity, which was the chief cult object...
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  • Sìmíng Zhīlǐ (四明知禮, 960–1028, Japanese: Shimei Chirei), also known as Siming Fazhi (四明法智), was a Chinese Buddhist scholar monk and key figure in the revival...
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    Destinies). Siming is both an abstract deity (or more rather title thereof) and a celestial asterism. In the Daoist case of the Three Worms, Siming, as Director...
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    Daniel Aaron. Siming Zhili and Tiantai Pure Land In the Song Dynasty, p. 241. PHD Dissertation, Yale University, 1994. Getz, Daniel Aaron. Siming Zhili and...
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    ascension, Shi Siming, the governor of Pinglu Commandery and a close ally of An Lushan, killed An Qingxu and usurped the leadership. Shi Siming ruled for two...
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    evidence to support this claim. Siming Mountain [zh] in Ningbo, Zhejiang: Scholar Fang Dong has proposed that Siming Mountain in Ningbo is likely the...
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    Cancer. It is divided between Huli District in the north and Siming District in the south. Siming also includes Gulangyu. Its mainland territory is divided...
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  • previous lives Nezha: Taoist protection deity Nüwa: creator of humans Pangu: a deity that separated heaven and earth Siming: god of lifespan and fate Sun Wukong...
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    stylized and performed as part of 'Bhootaradhane' or worship of the local deities worshipped by the Tulu speaking population. It has influenced Yakshagana...
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    meditates on emptiness and visualizes one's chosen deity (yidam), its mandala and companion deities, resulting in identification with this divine reality...
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    Jade Emperor (redirect from Jade Deity)
    the myths describes how the Jade Emperor became the monarch of all the deities in heaven. It is one of the few myths in which the Jade Emperor really...
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    Wenchang Wang (category Taoist deities)
    had names of their own: Shangjiang (上將), Cijiang (次將), Guixiang (貴相o), Siming (司命), Sizhong (司中), and Silu (司祿). Wenchang Wang is often depicted as an...
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  • several other deities like Chunyang Zushi (純陽祖師) or Siming Zhenjun (司命真君). Most Enzhugong's temples are usually dedicated to three or five deities, however...
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  • Perëndi (redirect from Perendi (deity))
    Albanian noun for God, deity, sky and heaven. It is used capitalized to refer to the Supreme Being, and uncapitalized for "deity", "sky" and "heaven"....
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  • Three Deathbringers, an idea from Taoism that relates to the Chinese deity Siming This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Deathbringer...
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    currently a popular goddess. The Siming is a god of lifespan and fate. Tu'er Shen is a leveret or rabbit gay deity, patron of gay men who engage in same...
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    during the Song dynasty (960–1279) by the Tiantai monk Siming Zhili (Chinese: 四明知禮; pinyin: Sìmíng Zhīlǐ), which is still regularly performed in modern...
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    Matarajin (category Wrathful deities)
    Tendai school of Japanese Buddhism. While originally regarded as a wrathful deity obstructing rebirth in the pure land, and thus a "god of obstacles", with...
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    its history and many of their meditation treatises discuss the practice. Siming Zhili's Miaozongchao commentary to the Contemplation Sutra is one influential...
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    The Gods of Pegāna (category Lists of fictional deities)
    is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna. It was followed by a further collection, Time and...
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    the 60-day cycle") while the host is sleeping, and file reports to the Siming (司命; "Director of Destinies") who deducts a certain number of days from...
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  • List of Etruscan mythological figures (category Lists of deities)
    This is a list of deities and legendary figures found in Etruscan mythology. The names below were taken mainly from Etruscan "picture bilinguals", which...
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    is also personified as a goddess called Uṣṇīṣavijaya, a female Buddhist deity associated with the Buddha's Uṣṇīṣa (a magical topknot or supernatural dome...
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    Xian (Taoism) (category Taoist deities)
    their name and "allotted life span" deleted from the ledgers kept by the Sīmìng (司命; 'Controller of Fate'; "Director of allotted life spans"). Mortals who...
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  • districts (sime) or even small kingdoms (royal butas or rajandaivas). The deity Jumadi is cited as an example of a Rajandaiva, i.e. a royal deity who reigns...
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    (一行三昧; Yīxíng sānmèi). Within Vajrayāna Buddhism, Mañjuśrī is a meditational deity and considered a fully enlightened Buddha. In Shingon Buddhism, he is one...
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  • a collection of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna. It was preceded by his earlier collection The Gods...
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  • lightning deity, apparently an Albanian reflection of the Indo-European sky god (Zojz in Albanian tradition). The legendary battle of a heroic deity associated...
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