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to being divine. However, they may pay reverence to images of Buddha (Gyatso, 2001). Buddha is seen as a teacher or a guide with B...

because of the construct of human nature, and the constant conflict caused by physical needs, sexual urges, and the desires for lo...

painful as are disease and old age. It is painful not to have what we would like to have (Lorentz, 2007). In other words, life is ...

study showed that the emotions of "loving-kindness and compassion" could be encouraged and learned as sixteen "age-matched contro...

of the Divine somewhat differently than do Christians, as while they believe in a variety of "celestial realms," which includes be...

18). The words of Buddha were not written down until several centuries after his death and the first divisions within Buddhist b...

Various pieces of literature are explored, compared and contrasted. These are Native American works and beliefs are discussed as c...

The essay addresses Carl Jung's beliefs regarding Christ as the savior. The author adds that Jung was born into a Christian famil...

but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...

covenant and the new way. In Acts, Luke recounts acts of the Spirit. It is believed Luke wrote this to "establish Christianity as...

In five pages Christian belief and 'last days' are considred in an overview of beliefs and attitudes. Four sources are cited in t...

book that described her new beliefs entitled Science and Health, which was published in 1875. In 1877, she married Asa Gilbert Edd...

and free them from years of persecution (Jesus Institute, 2005). Since Jesus came in peace, many did not accept Him as the true Me...

Quran establishes a set of beliefs and is the basis of the religion (Esposito). Hinduism is a bit more flexible. It "is best regar...

has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...

Buddha identified Four Noble Truths. They may be briefly stated as follows: Human life is an existence of suffering. Human sufferi...

Yet, this movement includes many who are in a minority. Today, regardless of religion, sex is everywhere. This was not always the ...

This essay presents an overview of Buddhism that explains the fundamental beliefs of this world religion. The Buddhist orientation...

In five pages this paper examines how the Sermon on the Mount preached by Jesus represents and reflects Christianity beliefs and t...

In six pages Jainism's history and belief systems are considered in an overview that also makes comparisons with the Buddhist spir...

In five pages the beliefs of an afterlife as espoused by Buddhist and Jewish religions are discussed. There are ten bibliographic...

suffering: Why doesnt he participate, and why does he leave his faithful servants to suffer?5 These questions are fundamental to...

In nine pages a comparative analysis of Native American and Buddhist beliefs considers their similarities and differences. Six so...

This paper analyzes Christian's short story collection, Rain on a Tin Roof. The author focuses on details of Christian's coming o...

Christianity is and always has been the dominant religious preference in the United States. It was founded on the philosophy of r...

as a servant of Christ Jesus, who was "called to be an apostle" (Romans 1:1)(This reference and all subsequent references refer to...

I was speaking have a superhuman wisdom, which I may fail to describe, because I have it not myself; and he who says that I have, ...

investigation of the dhamma, energy, rapture or happiness, calm, concentration, and equanimity" (Thera, 2009). The story entitle...

did not want to support the offspring of the religious leader. Yet, whatever the reason, attachment is a concept that is very impo...

a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...