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Essays 331 - 360
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" ...
doctrines of faith and hope as the two primary elements of Judaism (Schechter, 2002). Buddhism decrees outright respect for...
This then introduces the debate regarding predestination and free will: if...
the balance and harmony which is achieved within it. The circle which surrounds the symbol represents the infinity of the cosmos, ...
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"....
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...
eternal soul and reap what you sow....Christianity" maintains "the notion of an eternal soul, a single lifetime, and eternal bliss...
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...
Self, in the sense that the term is usually understood, but that everything we are is made up of constructs of reality, interwoven...
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...
with the absolute. Nagarjuna disagreed with this sense of absolutism. Nagarjuna philosophy can also be distinguished from mainst...
notes, in other words, people are constantly changing and re-inventing aspects of themselves in order to adapt to the equivalent c...
as by feeding monks, building and maintaining temples, releasing birds and fish, helping the needy and other acts of selflessness ...
similar view of women, when examining Islam the testimony of two women is equal to the testimony of a single man, according to th...
the sun, mountains, lakes, other aspects of nature and even some animals and humans and because of this Shinto is referred to as a...
other part of the Roman empire. Merely associating with non-Jews was believed to make a Jewish person unclean" (Rosser, 1995). How...
a loved one, we turn inward and find we are more appreciative of the people in our lives. This is not something necessarily taught...
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...
(4.4.5-6) details how the law of karma determines the birth of the reincarnated soul (Pravrajika, 2001). Vedanta Hinduism views de...
BC and embarked on numerous expansionist campaigns. He later turned to Buddhism and, repenting of his earlier policies of violent ...
Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...
and Soul-Making : Understanding Jungian Synchronicity Through Physics, Buddhism, and Philosophy, Victor Mansfield notes how depth ...
it becomes essential to apply the definition to Buddhists by recognizing them as atheists (Buddhism and Hinduism Compared, 2004). ...
(Rothberg, 1994). This makes it difficult to apply these terms to the Eastern concept of Buddhism. The fact that the usage of th...
centuries later many of his works were collected together and many oral stories were also collected by Buddhist monks to become th...
were several important developments in the style and theme of Chinese painting during the Han dynasty. Tomb paintings were importa...
Because of this syncretism, this merging of major religious philosophies and beliefs, understanding Japanese religion can sometime...