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Essays 181 - 210
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 ...
Because of this syncretism, this merging of major religious philosophies and beliefs, understanding Japanese religion can sometime...
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...
number one, yet Islam doesnt characterize Allah in any type of human form (Zahid). Additionally, Islam doesnt recognize castes - a...
it becomes essential to apply the definition to Buddhists by recognizing them as atheists (Buddhism and Hinduism Compared, 2004). ...
BC and embarked on numerous expansionist campaigns. He later turned to Buddhism and, repenting of his earlier policies of violent ...
and Soul-Making : Understanding Jungian Synchronicity Through Physics, Buddhism, and Philosophy, Victor Mansfield notes how depth ...
a loved one, we turn inward and find we are more appreciative of the people in our lives. This is not something necessarily taught...
similar view of women, when examining Islam the testimony of two women is equal to the testimony of a single man, according to th...
of recognizing cause and effect. Throughout the history of Buddhism, there were disputes and different sects emerged. The first ...
tradition, also included transmigration: "Karma is ... the momentum of our actions that propels us through sa?sara, the continuous...
today, scholars see three types of Buddhism: "immigrant Buddhism," "import Buddhism" and "export Buddhism" (Buddhism in the United...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
as by feeding monks, building and maintaining temples, releasing birds and fish, helping the needy and other acts of selflessness ...
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...
suffering, and that this suffering could only be escaped through giving up selfish desires. This spiritual "enlightenment" could b...