Home›Cosmological Beliefs›Status Within the Tradition›Standard teaching, not formally definedBrowse ByStandard teaching, not formally definedThis page groups beliefs by their standing within a body of teaching. Wikipedia notes that "beliefs are the subject of various important philosophical debates," including how "fine-grained or coarse-grained" a given belief actually is. Browsing by status-within-the-tradition lets a visitor tell a settled belief from a contested one.FactsLearn MoreStandard teaching, not formally definedSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedStatements about the structure and history of the world and its beings - creation, world ages, the shape of the cosmos, the fate of the dead - held as articles of a tradition rather than as speculation. The accounts gathered here answer different questions: an origin of the world and a recurring destruction of it are not the same kind of claim. 2StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedA standard analytic category in the study of religion 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedBeliefs & Restrictions 1Learn MoreThe Cosmological Beliefs This group gathers cosmological beliefs, the teachings of the traditions about the structure, origin and destiny of the cosmos: how the world came to be, how it is ordered, and how it will end. Every tradition frames human life within some such account of the whole. The browser will find the cosmological beliefs the atlas gathers. The entries describe each in its own terms, reporting the tradition's own account rather than reconciling the many differing pictures.Standard teaching, not formally definedFilter Results18 entriesOrigin Period Start YearAll1150 (1)Affirmation OfAllBardo (1)Moksha (1)Purgatory (1)Wahdat al-Shuhud (1)Category of BeliefAllCore Tenets (3)Cosmological Beliefs (11)TraditionAllGaudiya Vaishnavism (1)Gelug (2)ISKCON (Hare Krishna) (1)Jodo Shinshu (1)Jonang (1)Kagyu (1)Karma Kagyu (1)Kashmir Shaivism (1)Lingayatism (1)Madhyamaka (1)Nath Sampradaya (1)Nichiren (1)Nichiren Shoshu (1)Nyingma (1)Palo Mayombe (1)Pure Land (1)Roman Catholicism (1)Sakya (1)Samkhya (1)Seicho-no-Ie (1)Sethianism (1)Shaivism (1)Shaktism (1)Shri Vidya (1)Smartism (1)Soka Gakkai (1)Sri Vaishnavism (1)Sufism (1)Tibetan Buddhism (1)Vaishnavism (1)SubjectAllDeath, rebirth and destiny (5)Human nature (2)Knowledge and reason (1)Sacred history: what happened (1)Salvation and liberation (1)The cosmos and creation (3)The nature of the divine (5)ObligationAllObligatory (6)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 18A person carries a ka, the vital force needing offerings after death, and a ba, the mobile aspect of self that can leave the tomb and move between the dead and the living.Standard teaching, not formally definedAll phenomena lack intrinsic nature (svabhava)Standard teaching, not formally definedAncestors continue to watch over and can bless or punish their living descendantsStandard teaching, not formally definedBondyeStandard teaching, not formally definedFate Binds Even the GodsStandard teaching, not formally definedHamingja: Luck as an Inheritable ResourceStandard teaching, not formally definedLandvaettir: The Land's Own SpiritsStandard teaching, not formally definedMappo, the latter age of the decline of the DharmaStandard teaching, not formally definedMoksha: liberation from rebirthStandard teaching, not formally definedNahui Ollin: The Sun Requires Blood to Keep MovingStandard teaching, not formally definedNumen: The Presence and Will of a Power at WorkStandard teaching, not formally definedPurgatoryStandard teaching, not formally definedThe bardo, the intermediate state between death and rebirthStandard teaching, not formally definedThe Creator of This World Is a Lesser Power Beneath the True GodStandard teaching, not formally definedThe Fylgja: A Spirit That Follows a Person or FamilyStandard teaching, not formally definedThe Phenomenal World of Illness and Suffering Is Not Ultimately RealStandard teaching, not formally definedWahdat al-Shuhud: The Unity Perceived Is of Witness, Not of BeingStandard teaching, not formally definedWyrd and Orlog: The Weave of FateStandard teaching, not formally definedSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005s.v. CosmologyView the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.