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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...
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...
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...
Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...
eternal soul and reap what you sow....Christianity" maintains "the notion of an eternal soul, a single lifetime, and eternal bliss...
BC and embarked on numerous expansionist campaigns. He later turned to Buddhism and, repenting of his earlier policies of violent ...
a loved one, we turn inward and find we are more appreciative of the people in our lives. This is not something necessarily taught...
and Soul-Making : Understanding Jungian Synchronicity Through Physics, Buddhism, and Philosophy, Victor Mansfield notes how depth ...
Program; to be sure, traits such as intolerance and racism do not merely appear in ones life but rather have to be acquired. It i...
notes, in other words, people are constantly changing and re-inventing aspects of themselves in order to adapt to the equivalent c...
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...
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...
beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...
Self, in the sense that the term is usually understood, but that everything we are is made up of constructs of reality, interwoven...
as by feeding monks, building and maintaining temples, releasing birds and fish, helping the needy and other acts of selflessness ...
of exhibits, and millions of visitors would produce very different conclusions" (Rose, 1996). As such many people ask "How was the...
I resulted from a variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin...
ideas more thoroughly, it helps to look at the precepts of the various religions. First, buddhism is a rather well known ideology...
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 ...
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...
(Rothberg, 1994). This makes it difficult to apply these terms to the Eastern concept of Buddhism. The fact that the usage of th...
citizens (DeLong, 1997). "The projects and politics of militarism and imperialism, of racial and cultural rivalries, of monopolie...
it becomes essential to apply the definition to Buddhists by recognizing them as atheists (Buddhism and Hinduism Compared, 2004). ...
degrading 5. Throughout history we have evidence of right versus wrong; of morality versus immorality 6. In this way, it...
number one, yet Islam doesnt characterize Allah in any type of human form (Zahid). Additionally, Islam doesnt recognize castes - a...