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the people of your kingdom should adopt. The Vajrayana "mythologizes the doctrine of emptiness" (Conze, 2003, p. 178). Through t...

In ten pages the ways in which Buddhism has been practiced in the United States are examined in terms of various sects, its social...

tomatoes and carrots: eating the tomato does not adversely affect the tomato plant; eating a carrot kills the plant. Buddhism ...

was accepted as a method for achieving this goal (Beals, 2002, p. 24). During this era, the majority of women seeking abortions we...

Koran, Jews follow the Torah or Tanakh (Rich, 2006), Buddhists follow the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama was is also known as the...

tradition, also included transmigration: "Karma is ... the momentum of our actions that propels us through sa?sara, the continuous...

the fact that "The Buddhists consider the world to be full of sorrow and regard ending the sorrow as the chief aim of human life" ...

and responsible for the advent of Buddhism. To some extent, his unique history would lay the groundwork for his interest in spirit...

salvation" (Hanh). Buddhism holds that individuality is an illusion and teaches a belief in the "non-self" or "anatta" (Hanh). Chr...

found seems to be religious in intent, but no one is sure (Swanson, 1998). The civilization reached its height in about 2500 BC an...

consciousness" (Sayadaw). These are the normal processes of perception, movement, and consciousness. With this concept Buddha arri...

Buddha perceived many faults with the status quo approach to religion. He consequently proposed radical alternatives advocating i...

(Alisimo, 2007). When this freedom is finally attained, the practitioner has reached Nirvana (Alisimo, 2007). Mahayana Buddhism u...

revelations of Judaism and then Christianity, but draws the story onward to yet another climax" (Neusner, 2006). Neusner says that...

today, scholars see three types of Buddhism: "immigrant Buddhism," "import Buddhism" and "export Buddhism" (Buddhism in the United...

paths of their hair and the red dot or bindi that is displayed on the forehead" indicate they are sexually active in many ways (La...

of recognizing cause and effect. Throughout the history of Buddhism, there were disputes and different sects emerged. The first ...

of Mahayana Buddhism. Its basic elements are practically identical to this form of Buddhism, in fact. Buddhism is in many ways o...

a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...

by way of recognition toward such shortcomings that humanity could overcome this "profound error" (Nehamas, 1994, p. 40), diligent...

into Zen Buddhism, which absorbed much of its metaphysical orientation from Taoist teachings (Suzuki 4). Unlike Indian Buddhism,...

Buddhists believe that the mind is non-physical and is reborn in another form after the brain dies. pragmatism: pragmatic philos...

similar view of women, when examining Islam the testimony of two women is equal to the testimony of a single man, according to th...

number one, yet Islam doesnt characterize Allah in any type of human form (Zahid). Additionally, Islam doesnt recognize castes - a...

(Rothberg, 1994). This makes it difficult to apply these terms to the Eastern concept of Buddhism. The fact that the usage of th...

it becomes essential to apply the definition to Buddhists by recognizing them as atheists (Buddhism and Hinduism Compared, 2004). ...

as no one bothered to make sure that things would go well. In the end, the war was just stopped but there were no victories. Ther...

were several important developments in the style and theme of Chinese painting during the Han dynasty. Tomb paintings were importa...

centuries later many of his works were collected together and many oral stories were also collected by Buddhist monks to become th...

Because of this syncretism, this merging of major religious philosophies and beliefs, understanding Japanese religion can sometime...