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Essays 241 - 270
Buddhists believe that the mind is non-physical and is reborn in another form after the brain dies. pragmatism: pragmatic philos...
abilities, illustrating how and why she wears the clothing she does: "I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for wa...
of recognizing cause and effect. Throughout the history of Buddhism, there were disputes and different sects emerged. The first ...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each others faces... Sometimes I dream a d...
To understand paticca-samutpada, annata, and anicca one must consider them within Buddhism as a whole. The first important point ...
today, scholars see three types of Buddhism: "immigrant Buddhism," "import Buddhism" and "export Buddhism" (Buddhism in the United...
(4.4.5-6) details how the law of karma determines the birth of the reincarnated soul (Pravrajika, 2001). Vedanta Hinduism views de...
a loved one, we turn inward and find we are more appreciative of the people in our lives. This is not something necessarily taught...
similar view of women, when examining Islam the testimony of two women is equal to the testimony of a single man, according to th...
other part of the Roman empire. Merely associating with non-Jews was believed to make a Jewish person unclean" (Rosser, 1995). How...
(Rothberg, 1994). This makes it difficult to apply these terms to the Eastern concept of Buddhism. The fact that the usage of th...
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...
with the absolute. Nagarjuna disagreed with this sense of absolutism. Nagarjuna philosophy can also be distinguished from mainst...
as by feeding monks, building and maintaining temples, releasing birds and fish, helping the needy and other acts of selflessness ...
eternal soul and reap what you sow....Christianity" maintains "the notion of an eternal soul, a single lifetime, and eternal bliss...
not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...
"Buddhism is horizontal or human-oriented, not vertical or God-oriented"....
the sun, mountains, lakes, other aspects of nature and even some animals and humans and because of this Shinto is referred to as a...
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...
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...
actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...
doctrines of faith and hope as the two primary elements of Judaism (Schechter, 2002). Buddhism decrees outright respect for...
alone could carry the long swords (Dunn, 1977, Sellen, 2002). Dunns appreciation of some of the key elements of the classes explai...
that their God will ultimately rule the world, that the Jews have established the doctrines of faith and hope as the "two most pro...
This then introduces the debate regarding predestination and free will: if...
been taught as a sure and sufficient means for the attainment of our spiritual goal, call it Mukti, Moksha, Nirvana, Liberation or...