YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Comparing the Philosophies of Buddhism and Aristotle
Essays 511 - 540
This paper briefly summarizes each and considers the concept of the "no-mind" as discussed by Sixth Patriarch Hui-neng. Discussion...
Religion offers tremendous insight into life. Most religions regard our worldly lives as tests where we must endure a certain...
paths of their hair and the red dot or bindi that is displayed on the forehead" indicate they are sexually active in many ways (La...
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...
today, scholars see three types of Buddhism: "immigrant Buddhism," "import Buddhism" and "export Buddhism" (Buddhism in the United...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
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...
the fact that "The Buddhists consider the world to be full of sorrow and regard ending the sorrow as the chief aim of human life" ...
found seems to be religious in intent, but no one is sure (Swanson, 1998). The civilization reached its height in about 2500 BC an...
Buddha perceived many faults with the status quo approach to religion. He consequently proposed radical alternatives advocating i...
salvation" (Hanh). Buddhism holds that individuality is an illusion and teaches a belief in the "non-self" or "anatta" (Hanh). Chr...
and responsible for the advent of Buddhism. To some extent, his unique history would lay the groundwork for his interest in spirit...
were several important developments in the style and theme of Chinese painting during the Han dynasty. Tomb paintings were importa...
Because of this syncretism, this merging of major religious philosophies and beliefs, understanding Japanese religion can sometime...
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...
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...
(Rothberg, 1994). This makes it difficult to apply these terms to the Eastern concept of Buddhism. The fact that the usage of th...
similar view of women, when examining Islam the testimony of two women is equal to the testimony of a single man, according to th...
and Soul-Making : Understanding Jungian Synchronicity Through Physics, Buddhism, and Philosophy, Victor Mansfield notes how depth ...
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...
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...
the sun, mountains, lakes, other aspects of nature and even some animals and humans and because of this Shinto is referred to as a...