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Essays 421 - 450
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"....
notes, in other words, people are constantly changing and re-inventing aspects of themselves in order to adapt to the equivalent c...
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...
with the absolute. Nagarjuna disagreed with this sense of absolutism. Nagarjuna philosophy can also be distinguished from mainst...
brought us images of war, live and in color. Regardless of whatever political ideologies concurrently exist, no reasonable, think...
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...
New York's Dominican immigrant community is examined in five pages....
This paper examines how the Eastern precepts of Zen Buddhism have been impacted by Westernization in six pages. Five sources are ...
01B). As a people, Christians are bound by the convictions that they are to possess honesty, respectfulness, charity, kindness an...
decision on this important topic, one should of course explore the firm and what it stands for. What is its vision and its mission...
on the day-to-day life of the Yanomami and have titles such as Weeding the Garden, A Man and His Wife Make a Hammock, and Firewood...
highly insulted. That is just one example as to why it is important to understand differences in cultural backgrounds, particularl...
were unable to teach their children good values and morality, or how to be men and women. The removal of parents made families wi...
a new system is necessary, its been difficult to get people to agree on what, exactly, that system should be. There have been prop...
In many respects our foreign policy to Latin America in general has been characterized more by neglect than any other factor. Laz...
facets of daily life, from job availability to health care and public education, but the list is growing, even to the long term af...
children mature earlier and earlier as time goes on, something studied by scientists over time. However, the theorists draw a conc...
points out that an ideal engine, in optimum condition could theoretically conceive 100 percent efficiency, but that real-world req...
were several important developments in the style and theme of Chinese painting during the Han dynasty. Tomb paintings were importa...
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...
to unite theology and sociopolitical concerns within the framework provided by this school of theological theory. Rather than spea...
that imposed minimum spending formulas on schools, three-strikes sentencing laws, land conservation measures and measures abolishi...
protection, and both of the nations are on an even keel as it respects economic considerations. Mexico fares much worse in that de...
terminal condition she might face. That is the precisely the purpose of a living will - to speak for the person who has been medi...
To understand paticca-samutpada, annata, and anicca one must consider them within Buddhism as a whole. The first important point ...
not wrong. They believe that people should be able to do whatever they like as long as it does not hurt anyone else. Yet, the majo...