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| | Buddhism - Dorje |
 | | Buddhism is a religion and philosophy that developed from the teachings of the Buddha Gautama (or Gautama), who lived as early as the 6th century BC. | | | The Bell and Dorje, or thunderbolt, are inseparable ritual objects in Tibetan Buddhism. | | | The Buddha was not a god and the philosophy of Buddhism does not entail any theistic world-view. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/buddhism.html
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| | The Buddha wasn't a human being, as he was in Theravada Buddhism, but the manifestation of a universal, spiritual being. | | | From 1192 to the present day, Buddhism ceased to be an organized religion in India, the fertile soil from which the religion grew. | | | Therevada Buddhism holds that Buddha was a historical pe rson who, on his death, ceased to exist. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/TEXT/buddhism.rtf
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| | Buddhism and Its Spread Along the Silk Road |
| | Persecution of Buddhism in Gupta empire by the invading Hephthalites | | | As Buddhism advanced towards the Tarim basin, Kashgaria with Yarkand and Khotan in the west, Tumsuk, Aksu and Kizil in the north, Loulan, Karasahr and Dunhuang in the east, and Miran and Cherchen in the south became important centers of Buddhist art and thought. | | | Before Buddhism reached Gandhara in the 3rd century BC, there had been no representation of the Buddha, and it was in the Gandharan culture that the use of Buddha images had begun. |
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http://www.silk-road.com/artl/buddhism.shtml
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| | Untitled Document |
| | Tibetan Buddhism is normally described as a result of the syncretism between the Tantric Buddhist stream and the local Tibetan religion (Bon). | | | Mellor, Philip A. "''Protestant Buddhism?' The Cultural Translation of Buddhism in England," in Religion 21,1, 73-92. | | | Restricted to world religions, Buddhism is certainly the religion that has the most adepts in Brazil, after Christianity. |
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http://www.globalbuddhism.org/4/shoji032.htm
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| | Tibetan Buddhism, the mongolian religion |
| | Before the Tibetans were converted to Buddhism, their original religious belief was known as Bon, a faith similar to Boe of the Mongols. | | | Buddhism mainly developed among the Khalkha Mongols on the north of the Gobi because of the knowledge of Buddhism there and its political links--that is the prestige it had among the household of the First Jebtsundamba Khutughru, who were members of the "Golden descendants" of Chinggis Khan. | | | Although at that time Tibetan Buddhism was only the religious faith of the Mongolian imperial clan and the people of the higher class, it had begun to greatly influence the thought of many Mongols. |
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http://www.innermongolia.org/english/tibetan_buddhism.htm
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| | Introduction Hindu-Buddhism Archaeology |
| | Cultural and religious circumstances, the introduction of Sanskrit for writing, and the adoption of Buddhist and Hindu mythology were not the domain of traders. | | | When inscriptions first make their appearance in Indonesian history, between the 6th and 8th centuries, they depict a culture that already contained both Hindu and Buddhist elements, and that was in the process of consolidation around a few main centres of power. | | | In early Indonesian Buddhism, the sequence of reliefs leads the worshipper around the shrine in a clockwise direction so that the monument is always on the right. |
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http://www.arkeologi.net/classic.php
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| | Evolution of the Buddha Image |
| | Buddhism was a wide spread phenomenon even in the Buddha's lifetime and every place and person, devoted to this new path, cherished the desire to feel the presence of the Master. | | | Buddhism was by now the dominant religion of China. | | | In India, Buddhism was now the religion primarily of Tibet, Nepal and Ladakh like hilly regions where it is yet the principal faith of people. |
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http://www.exoticindia.com/article/lordbuddha
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| | Dictionary of the History of Ideas |
| | In Buddhism monks and priests are responsible for | | | According to Buddhism faith should not be in contra- | | | Buddhism as a religion was examined from the view- |
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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv1-34
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| | Zen Buddhism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | In its formative period Zen was influenced by both Taoism and elements of Prajna-Paramita Buddhism (see sunyata). | | | 1957), and Essentials of Zen Buddhism (1962, repr. | | | After the great persecution of Buddhism in 845, Zen emerged as the dominant Chinese sect, due partly to its innate vitality and partly to its isolation in mountain monasteries away from centers of political power. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/ze/ZenBuddh.html
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| | Japanese Buddhism |
| | But opponents of Buddhism were unable to hold out for long against the new religion's advocates, who found it useful to promote the monarch--already considered a descendant of the highest-ranked kami--as a delegate of the Buddha. | | | Another alternative to orthodox Nara Buddhism was MOUNTAIN BUDDHISM, which emphasized kinship with nature and the kami over the study of Buddhist scriptures, and ascetic practice to obtain Buddhahood--and adeptness at magic--over rites to benefit the court. | | | In Japan, Buddhism underwent further changes that made even ritualists for the kami lose reason for protest: native beliefs were accomodated, and the kami were seen as friendly to Buddhism rather than offended by it. |
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http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~jmg/ah/budd.over1.html
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| | Forshang World Foundation and Forshang Buddhism World Center Da-Yuan Association |
| | In the doctrines of Forshang Buddhism World, it outlines, “Compassion is the utmost power of all Buddha.” This is the fundamental in which it was established. | | | In the future, Forshang World Foundation will continue to develop in accordance with the four preaching principles of Forshang Buddhism: the worldly orientation of Buddhism, the daily practicality of Buddhist doctrines, the scientific approach of Buddhist study, and the modernization of Buddhist system. | | | Other objectives include development and preservation of traditional culture, cultural artifacts, and wisdom of ancient Buddhism; improvement of human health to lengthen human life span; preaching the Supreme Hua-Yen of Forshang Buddhism to the future world. |
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http://www.forshang.org/000forshangintro/ForshaWorldFoundIntroe.htm
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| | The Discourse of Study and Practice |
| | However, the forms of Buddhism practiced and the close-knit ethnic groups who practice them belie this apparent unity. | | | Though never himself a priest or a monk, he has been called by many the First Patriarch of American Zen Buddhism (Fields 191). | | | The reasoning behind such spiritual seeking can only be guessed at. Through heightened communication and cultural exchange, through modern disillusionment with traditional white American spirituality, the time seemed (and still seems) to be ripe. |
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http://www.mindground.net/discourse.html
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| | The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today |
| | Indonesia absorbed the three main religions of India -- Hinduism from ancient times, Buddhism in the medieval period and Islam from twelfth century onwards. | | | When Buddhism and Hinduism penetrated into Indonesia, the new religions brought with them a new wave of musical traditions. | | | Jataka's stories of Buddhism refer to Swarnabhumi (Sumatra) and in Valmiki's Ramayana, we find mention of Yuvadipa or Java. |
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http://www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20050411.R05
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| | Cultural Policy in Thailand |
| | Since religion is considered as a part of culture in Thailand, the Religions Department is to promote religious activities of all denominations as well as to disseminate ethical and moral issues among the public. | | | Disseminate the Thai culture to the Thai people at large enabling them to understand and realize the values of their own culture and to translate these values into action. | | | The Thai national cultural policy was formulated and proclaimed in 1981 in accordance with the spirit of Article LXIV of the Constitution of the Royal Thai Kingdom B.E. 2521 which reads "the State shall promote and preserve the national culture." The substance of the policy can be summarized as below. |
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http://www.wwcd.org/policy/clink/Thailand.html
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| | Ditch the raft |
| | But one day all the intellectual reading I'd done on Buddhism and all the emotional running I'd done from religion dropped, and I found myself sobbing in a temple at the base of a shrine to Maitreya Buddha. | | | Since I attended the Women in Buddhism conference, I've had a growing need to articulate monasticism and its purpose. | | | He also notes that in France, where the monastic tradition is longer, Catholic culture (if not religion) more deeply ingrained, and attitudes towards sex and identity are different, the kinds of problems Americans have with monasticism don't appear. |
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http://ditchtheraft.blogspot.com
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| | Chinese Cultural Studies: Andrew L. March: Myth of Asia |
| | All elements of the life of nations must he regarded as independent developments, not [only] in so far as they serve a final development.' Whatever, their historical role, all human events have this aspect of being', 'immediate to God'. | | | Thus Dawson writes of the Roman empire, 'we might have guessed that this spiritual deficiency would lead to an infiltration of oriental influences', and contrasts Christianity with 'the cosmopolitan world'of religious syncretism in which Greek philosophy mingled with the cults and traditions of the ancient East'. | | | Not any superior excellence in them, which, when it exists, exists as the effect not as the cause; but their remarkable diversity of character and culture. |
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http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/mythofasia.html
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| | The Sacred Land Initiative Contact Us |
| | It is in the clean pristine alpine meadows that most of the herbs used in Tibetan medicine grow. | | | However, not all Sherpas live in Khumbu, but are also found through out Nepal and in India, Bhutan and Tibet. | | | Traditionally they live in sparsely populated areas of the high Himalayas and share many cultural links with Tibet including their language, religion, dress, architecture and agricultural practices. |
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http://www.sacredland.net/ecokhumbu.htm
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| | Encyclopedia: Cultural elements of Buddhism |
| | People who viewed "Cultural elements of Buddhism" also viewed: | | | The cultural elements of Buddhism vary by region and include: | | | Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com). |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Cultural-elements-of-Buddhism
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| | Black Tai and Lao Song Dam |
| | In recent years, some haphazard acculturation has occurred-increasing attendance to Buddhism, formal education, adoption of Western dress styles, incorporation of local folk rituals, and engagement in non-traditional occupations and exchange systems-though not uniformly among Song communities nor to a degree that emblematic cultural practices and membership boundaries have disappeared. | | | As with their Black Tai forbears, Song have been regarded as extraordinarily conservative of cultural identity. | | | The similarities between Black Tai and Lao Song cultural form, as well as the common attributions of traditionalism, must be considered separately from their ethnic identities. |
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http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tai/TaiDam/article/a6.htm
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| | Korea Link Archive |
| | (A close look at interwoven cultural elements which belie the generalizations of the American press.) | | | (A unique presentation of an important element of the Asian tapestry woven into America's heritage.) |
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http://www.mindground.net/korealinks.html
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| | How did the Japanese incorporate outside cultural elements yet make these elements distinctly Japanese? |
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http://www.mnstate.edu/wellsja/Lectout104/Japan.doc
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