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most ancient religions. Monotheistic, Jews believe that creation is the work of a "single, all-knowing divinity" and that everythi...
This paper briefly summarizes each and considers the concept of the "no-mind" as discussed by Sixth Patriarch Hui-neng. Discussion...
Buddhism is one of the most widely spread religions in the world. It is perhaps unlike many other religions for it teaches a way o...
each other outside of school. Others just dropped their children off for Sunday School, and didnt go in themselves. And others, w...
In six pages this paper discusses the increasing if somewhat surprising allure of Buddhism in Great Britain. Four sources are cit...
In five pages Buddhism is examined both in terms of philosophy and its ethical content. Three sources are cited in the bibliograp...
In five pages this paper discusses life after death in a consideration of the religions Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity. Thre...
This essay presents an overview of Buddhism that explains the fundamental beliefs of this world religion. The Buddhist orientation...
been taught as a sure and sufficient means for the attainment of our spiritual goal, call it Mukti, Moksha, Nirvana, Liberation or...
(Rothberg, 1994). This makes it difficult to apply these terms to the Eastern concept of Buddhism. The fact that the usage of th...
number one, yet Islam doesnt characterize Allah in any type of human form (Zahid). Additionally, Islam doesnt recognize castes - a...
To understand paticca-samutpada, annata, and anicca one must consider them within Buddhism as a whole. The first important point ...
the silk trade in general, laid the groundwork for the spread of religion. One might compare the phenomenon to the Internet today....
doctrines of faith and hope as the two primary elements of Judaism (Schechter, 2002). Buddhism decrees outright respect for...
that their God will ultimately rule the world, that the Jews have established the doctrines of faith and hope as the "two most pro...
there are certainly differences between the two disciplines and this creates a source of conflict. That said, while Confucianism ...
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...
notes, in other words, people are constantly changing and re-inventing aspects of themselves in order to adapt to the equivalent c...
with the absolute. Nagarjuna disagreed with this sense of absolutism. Nagarjuna philosophy can also be distinguished from mainst...
ideas more thoroughly, it helps to look at the precepts of the various religions. First, buddhism is a rather well known ideology...
other part of the Roman empire. Merely associating with non-Jews was believed to make a Jewish person unclean" (Rosser, 1995). How...
the sun, mountains, lakes, other aspects of nature and even some animals and humans and because of this Shinto is referred to as a...
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...
"Buddhism is horizontal or human-oriented, not vertical or God-oriented"....
eternal soul and reap what you sow....Christianity" maintains "the notion of an eternal soul, a single lifetime, and eternal bliss...
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...
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...
embark upon myriad experiences that would otherwise never have existed. Being introduced to Buddhism by way of India in the 2nd c...