- essential quality or character, as of the cosmos or one's own nature.
- conformity to religious law, custom, duty, or one's own quality or character.
- virtue.
- religion.
- law, especially religious law.
- the doctrine or teaching of the Buddha.
- social custom regarded as a religious and moral duty
- Hinduism
- the essential principle of the cosmos; natural law
- conduct that conforms with this
- ideal truth as set forth in the teaching of Buddha
