This glossary has been printed with the kind permission of QCA.  It was devised by the different faith communities to:

• give guidance to teachers on key words and their meanings within each religious tradition.

• try to reach some form of consensus on spellings.  This is almost an impossible task, due to the problems of transliterating from one script to another, for example, from Gurmukhi with 35 characters into the Roman script of 26 characters.

Literal translations into English are printed in italics

Words printed in red are themselves main entries and can be cross-referenced.

First, please select the religion containing the word you have identified .