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Essays 181 - 210
BC and embarked on numerous expansionist campaigns. He later turned to Buddhism and, repenting of his earlier policies of violent ...
karmic retribution. Zen Buddhists believe that karmic actions result in reincarnation, and that "ones circumstances are the suita...
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...
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...
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...
Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...
suffering, and that this suffering could only be escaped through giving up selfish desires. This spiritual "enlightenment" could b...
it becomes essential to apply the definition to Buddhists by recognizing them as atheists (Buddhism and Hinduism Compared, 2004). ...
centuries later many of his works were collected together and many oral stories were also collected by Buddhist monks to become th...
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...
similar view of women, when examining Islam the testimony of two women is equal to the testimony of a single man, according to th...
number one, yet Islam doesnt characterize Allah in any type of human form (Zahid). Additionally, Islam doesnt recognize castes - a...
(Rothberg, 1994). This makes it difficult to apply these terms to the Eastern concept of Buddhism. The fact that the usage of th...
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...
by way of recognition toward such shortcomings that humanity could overcome this "profound error" (Nehamas, 1994, p. 40), diligent...
into Zen Buddhism, which absorbed much of its metaphysical orientation from Taoist teachings (Suzuki 4). Unlike Indian Buddhism,...
Buddhists believe that the mind is non-physical and is reborn in another form after the brain dies. pragmatism: pragmatic philos...
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...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
today, scholars see three types of Buddhism: "immigrant Buddhism," "import Buddhism" and "export Buddhism" (Buddhism in the United...
to the attainment of nirvana. Rinzai incorporates the use of koans, or insight riddles, to bring the practitioner to satori, the f...
Confucian monarchs achieved for China what many of the Wests most modern pre-Enlightenment philosophers wanted for Europe (Woodsi...
of Confucianism and Buddhism. Unlike the primitivism of Shinto, the Chinese religious practices were far more sophisticated, whic...
bits of philosophy. For example, transcendental meditation is thought by some westerners as being a way one opens the door to the ...
regard to the manner by which they worship only one god. Unlike so many other religions that divide their devotion among several ...