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of recognizing cause and effect. Throughout the history of Buddhism, there were disputes and different sects emerged. The first ...

Buddhists believe that the mind is non-physical and is reborn in another form after the brain dies. pragmatism: pragmatic philos...

it becomes essential to apply the definition to Buddhists by recognizing them as atheists (Buddhism and Hinduism Compared, 2004). ...

number one, yet Islam doesnt characterize Allah in any type of human form (Zahid). Additionally, Islam doesnt recognize castes - a...

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...

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...

(4.4.5-6) details how the law of karma determines the birth of the reincarnated soul (Pravrajika, 2001). Vedanta Hinduism views de...

a loved one, we turn inward and find we are more appreciative of the people in our lives. This is not something necessarily taught...

BC and embarked on numerous expansionist campaigns. He later turned to Buddhism and, repenting of his earlier policies of violent ...

the balance and harmony which is achieved within it. The circle which surrounds the symbol represents the infinity of the cosmos, ...

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 ...

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...

embark upon myriad experiences that would otherwise never have existed. Being introduced to Buddhism by way of India in the 2nd c...

eternal soul and reap what you sow....Christianity" maintains "the notion of an eternal soul, a single lifetime, and eternal bliss...

"Buddhism is horizontal or human-oriented, not vertical or God-oriented"....

highly insulted. That is just one example as to why it is important to understand differences in cultural backgrounds, particularl...

01B). As a people, Christians are bound by the convictions that they are to possess honesty, respectfulness, charity, kindness an...

In seven pages the different forms of Buddhism practiced in China are examined in an historical overview and consideration of how ...

each other outside of school. Others just dropped their children off for Sunday School, and didnt go in themselves. And others, w...

In five pages Buddhism is examined both in terms of philosophy and its ethical content. Three sources are cited in the bibliograp...

In six pages this paper discusses the increasing if somewhat surprising allure of Buddhism in Great Britain. Four sources are cit...

In fifteen pages such aspects that characterize China including Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, along with the National and Commun...