Religion
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Ä€gama (Buddhism)
In Buddhism, an ''Ägama'' (आगम Sanskrit and PÄli, Tibetan: ལུང་ ( Wylie: lung) for "sacred work"Monier-Williams (1899), p. 129, see "Ä€gama," retrieved 12 Dec 2008 from "U. Cologne" at http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/s ...
, a collection of Early Buddhist texts
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Ä€gama (Hinduism)
The Agamas (Devanagari: , IAST: ) are a collection of several Tantric literature and scriptures of Hindu schools. Julius Lipner (2004), Hinduism: the way of the banyan, in The Hindu World (Editors: Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby), Routledge, ...
, scriptures of several Hindu sects
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Jain literature
Jain literature () refers to the literature of the Jain religion. It is a vast and ancient literary tradition, which was initially transmitted orally. The oldest surviving material is contained in the canonical ''Jain Agamas'', which are wri ...
(Jain Āgamas), various canonical scriptures in Jainism
Other uses
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''Agama'' (lizard), a genus of lizards in the family Agamidae
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Agama agama
The common agama, red-headed rock agama or rainbow agama (''Agama agama'') is a species of lizard from the family Agamidae found in most of sub-Saharan Africa. To clear up centuries of historical confusion based on Linnaeus and other authors, Wagn ...
'', a species of lizard from the family Agamidae
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Religion
Religion is a range of social system, social-cultural systems, including designated religious behaviour, behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, religious text, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics in religion, ethics, or ...
, referred to as ''agama'' in the Malay-speaking world (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei)
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Parthenogenesis
Parthenogenesis (; from the Greek + ) is a natural form of asexual reproduction in which the embryo develops directly from an egg without need for fertilization. In animals, parthenogenesis means the development of an embryo from an unfertiliz ...
or agamic, a form of asexual reproduction not involving the fusion of male and female gametes
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Agama Yoga Agama Yoga is a yoga school founded by Swami Vivekananda Saraswati, a Romanian yoga instructor born as Narcis Tarcău. The school is located on the island of Koh Pha Ngan in Thailand. In 2018, Agama also had centers in India, Colombia and Austria.
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is a yoga school founded by Swami Vivekananda Saraswati, a Romanian yoga instructor born as Narcis Tarcău
See also
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Agam (disambiguation)
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