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notes, in other words, people are constantly changing and re-inventing aspects of themselves in order to adapt to the equivalent c...
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...
the sun, mountains, lakes, other aspects of nature and even some animals and humans and because of this Shinto is referred to as a...
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 ...
BC and embarked on numerous expansionist campaigns. He later turned to Buddhism and, repenting of his earlier policies of violent ...
similar view of women, when examining Islam the testimony of two women is equal to the testimony of a single man, according to th...
a loved one, we turn inward and find we are more appreciative of the people in our lives. This is not something necessarily taught...
karmic retribution. Zen Buddhists believe that karmic actions result in reincarnation, and that "ones circumstances are the suita...
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...
Self, in the sense that the term is usually understood, but that everything we are is made up of constructs of reality, interwoven...
other part of the Roman empire. Merely associating with non-Jews was believed to make a Jewish person unclean" (Rosser, 1995). How...
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...
were several important developments in the style and theme of Chinese painting during the Han dynasty. Tomb paintings were importa...
To understand paticca-samutpada, annata, and anicca one must consider them within Buddhism as a whole. The first important point ...
Because of this syncretism, this merging of major religious philosophies and beliefs, understanding Japanese religion can sometime...
centuries later many of his works were collected together and many oral stories were also collected by Buddhist monks to become th...
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...
into Zen Buddhism, which absorbed much of its metaphysical orientation from Taoist teachings (Suzuki 4). Unlike Indian Buddhism,...
by way of recognition toward such shortcomings that humanity could overcome this "profound error" (Nehamas, 1994, p. 40), diligent...
today, scholars see three types of Buddhism: "immigrant Buddhism," "import Buddhism" and "export Buddhism" (Buddhism in the United...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
of recognizing cause and effect. Throughout the history of Buddhism, there were disputes and different sects emerged. The first ...
of Mahayana Buddhism. Its basic elements are practically identical to this form of Buddhism, in fact. Buddhism is in many ways o...
Water (Matritamah) represents the feminine or maternal aspects of life in the Hindu tradition. An integral function of the ...