In Religion
In the Kabbalah, there are 32 Kabbalistic Paths of Wisdom.
One of the central texts of the Pāli Canon in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, the Digha Nikaya, describes the appearance of the historical Buddha with a list of 32 physical characteristics.
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