Kripal calls it "the central text of the tradition".

The book would become a central text for the nascent media reform movement in the United States, and worldwide.

The question is what is the central text of the American value system?

It was later absorbed into the Huayan school, which adopted this sutra as part of its own central text.

The result was the Book of Mormon, a central text of the religion.

It is the central text of traditional faith, but also the Bible of the skeptical modern scholar.

Unlike many religions, Buddhism has no single central text that is universally referred to by all traditions.

This included the central religious text of Islam.

The book could be regarded the central text among his writings.

There is no central authority over the entire movement, nor any central religious text or religious leader.