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Essays 121 - 150
at the heart of many early doctrinal controversies about such matters as the nature of Nirvana, the purpose of monastic life, and ...
feminist Buddhists and those believing in traditional perspectives. By understanding this, it can allow Buddhist men and women to ...
either they werent invited or were present and were later written out of the scriptures. This resulted in the Pali canon being der...
In five pages Buddhism is defined in terms of being both a science as well as a religion with its basic tenets used to reinforce t...
the age of twenty-nine Siddhartha left his wife and infant son, his palace, and renounced the world. He entered the homeless life...
In this paper that consists of sections a Catholic personal belief system is developed and includes discussions about fundamentali...
In fifteen pages parallels that exist between Buddhism and Judaism are considered in this comparison and contrasting of their vari...
Quran establishes a set of beliefs and is the basis of the religion (Esposito). Hinduism is a bit more flexible. It "is best regar...
In this paper consisting of six pages the religions of Protestantism, Catholicism, and Buddhism are considered within the context ...
and their ministers are Rabbis. China, on the other hand, is primarily Buddhist. Is any one religion better than...
Confucian monarchs achieved for China what many of the Wests most modern pre-Enlightenment philosophers wanted for Europe (Woodsi...
In ten pages this sociological paper exposes the myth of American multiculturalism through a consideration of religions including ...
to the attainment of nirvana. Rinzai incorporates the use of koans, or insight riddles, to bring the practitioner to satori, the f...
the way it was lived" (BBC World Service, 2003). If an individual has lived a bad life, refusing to accept Jesus as Savior and God...
Self, in the sense that the term is usually understood, but that everything we are is made up of constructs of reality, interwoven...
represents a threat to those ideals is subject to punition" (Swidler). While the protection of womens morality is common throughou...
Although there are definite directions provided in the Bible as to the follies of splitting into separate religions and sects, mod...
embark upon myriad experiences that would otherwise never have existed. Being introduced to Buddhism by way of India in the 2nd c...
Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...
suffering, and that this suffering could only be escaped through giving up selfish desires. This spiritual "enlightenment" could b...
"Buddhism is horizontal or human-oriented, not vertical or God-oriented"....
when. Now is the moment to be alive. We may never be alive at all in our entire life. Therefore, the technique, if we have to s...
eternal soul and reap what you sow....Christianity" maintains "the notion of an eternal soul, a single lifetime, and eternal bliss...
This then introduces the debate regarding predestination and free will: if...
sex with a male, after the manner of sex with a woman, they have both committed an abomination, they shall surely be killed" (Quot...
the silk trade in general, laid the groundwork for the spread of religion. One might compare the phenomenon to the Internet today....
the sun, mountains, lakes, other aspects of nature and even some animals and humans and because of this Shinto is referred to as a...
other part of the Roman empire. Merely associating with non-Jews was believed to make a Jewish person unclean" (Rosser, 1995). How...
laborer such as a farmer, a tradesman or one in the military3. Like in any other profession, in order to obtain his goal, a monk m...
karmic retribution. Zen Buddhists believe that karmic actions result in reincarnation, and that "ones circumstances are the suita...