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Essays 241 - 270
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 ...
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...
embark upon myriad experiences that would otherwise never have existed. Being introduced to Buddhism by way of India in the 2nd c...
Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the ...
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...
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...
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...
the silk trade in general, laid the groundwork for the spread of religion. One might compare the phenomenon to the Internet today....
ideas more thoroughly, it helps to look at the precepts of the various religions. First, buddhism is a rather well known ideology...
as by feeding monks, building and maintaining temples, releasing birds and fish, helping the needy and other acts of selflessness ...
health arena, creating instructional programs that help others learn more about threatening health conditions and preventative mea...
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...
read or write were the clergy. Shrewdly, Charlemagne realized what power the clergy held over the nobles by the sheer fact that th...
were several important developments in the style and theme of Chinese painting during the Han dynasty. Tomb paintings were importa...
As he grew older he was also well known it seems for being something of a delinquent at times. While being very good with a firear...
Because of this syncretism, this merging of major religious philosophies and beliefs, understanding Japanese religion can sometime...
To understand paticca-samutpada, annata, and anicca one must consider them within Buddhism as a whole. The first important point ...
explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...
centuries later many of his works were collected together and many oral stories were also collected by Buddhist monks to become th...
prospect of becoming a photographer became less remote, perhaps even attainable" (Kodak, 2003). Bailey then finished with his n...
number one, yet Islam doesnt characterize Allah in any type of human form (Zahid). Additionally, Islam doesnt recognize castes - a...
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...
"was a former schoolteacher, greatly superior in education to her husband. Lawrences childhood was dominated by poverty and fricti...