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Essays 391 - 420
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...
notes, in other words, people are constantly changing and re-inventing aspects of themselves in order to adapt to the equivalent c...
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...
with the absolute. Nagarjuna disagreed with this sense of absolutism. Nagarjuna philosophy can also be distinguished from mainst...
embark upon myriad experiences that would otherwise never have existed. Being introduced to Buddhism by way of India in the 2nd c...
was accepted as a method for achieving this goal (Beals, 2002, p. 24). During this era, the majority of women seeking abortions we...
Koran, Jews follow the Torah or Tanakh (Rich, 2006), Buddhists follow the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama was is also known as the...
tradition, also included transmigration: "Karma is ... the momentum of our actions that propels us through sa?sara, the continuous...
as by feeding monks, building and maintaining temples, releasing birds and fish, helping the needy and other acts of selflessness ...
ideas more thoroughly, it helps to look at the precepts of the various religions. First, buddhism is a rather well known ideology...
the balance and harmony which is achieved within it. The circle which surrounds the symbol represents the infinity of the cosmos, ...
the silk trade in general, laid the groundwork for the spread of religion. One might compare the phenomenon to the Internet today....
This then introduces the debate regarding predestination and free will: if...
sex with a male, after the manner of sex with a woman, they have both committed an abomination, they shall surely be killed" (Quot...
there are certainly differences between the two disciplines and this creates a source of conflict. That said, while Confucianism ...
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...
Buddha identified Four Noble Truths. They may be briefly stated as follows: Human life is an existence of suffering. Human sufferi...
"white" churches despite the fact that acceptance is preached as part of the religion itself. A student wanting to embark on a ca...
four different occasions away from his palace he encountered the true pervasiveness of human suffering. When Prince Siddartha went...
years, was defined by a set of Vedic scriptures (Basham 8). Following a distinct separation from Hinduism, the Buddhists followed...
01B). As a people, Christians are bound by the convictions that they are to possess honesty, respectfulness, charity, kindness an...
In six pages 'right action' is defined and a discussion of its practice and how two right action forms contribute to the wider sph...
the fact that Christianity has in recent times spread rapidly to claim a large following (1991). The numbers of people wh...
This paper examines how the Eastern precepts of Zen Buddhism have been impacted by Westernization in six pages. Five sources are ...
In seven pages the different forms of Buddhism practiced in China are examined in an historical overview and consideration of how ...
highly insulted. That is just one example as to why it is important to understand differences in cultural backgrounds, particularl...
today, scholars see three types of Buddhism: "immigrant Buddhism," "import Buddhism" and "export Buddhism" (Buddhism in the United...