YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :How Buddhism Came to America
Essays 541 - 570
This paper examines Zen Buddhism in an overview of its East and West cultural significance in four pages. Five sources are cited ...
In nine pages this paper considers Zen Buddhism and Heidegger's teaching in a discussion of how meditation and its value relates t...
In ten pages this paper discusses the style and development of Kamakuran Period art in a consideration of Buddhism, priests, spiri...
In a paper consisting of twenty pages the right of America to own arms is examined from an historical perspective and the argument...
This paper discusses the geographical, cultural, and political divisiveness that plagued early America and the importance of regio...
In five pages this paper discusses the argument the author makes within the context of inequities in U.S. public school funding. ...
In eight pages computers and their increasing role in Buddhism adherents' lives are examined in the expanded methods of worship, s...
related to the greater permissiveness of American society (after all, even President Clinton has been at least been handed a "join...
In two pages this paper examines U.S. Nintendo in a consideration of its website information that also includes a discussion of wh...
This is a review consisting of twelve pages that compares and contrasts the institution of slavery in various times and societies ...
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 ...
and 1995 the service providing sector underwent a tremendous growth and the percent of U.S. employment attributed to the manufactu...
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...
health of the general economy, and that any evidence to the contrary merely represents a lag in cause and effect. The...
eternal soul and reap what you sow....Christianity" maintains "the notion of an eternal soul, a single lifetime, and eternal bliss...
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"....
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...
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...
karmic retribution. Zen Buddhists believe that karmic actions result in reincarnation, and that "ones circumstances are the suita...
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...
Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...