Similarities Between Hinduism And Buddhism
REL-405-GS Written Assignment #2/Myrna Ojeda
Distinguishing between mystical and numinous religious experience, contrast Hinduism and Buddhism from the perspective outlined by Nanina Smart. Why do you agree or disagree with Smart 's distinction of the two kinds of religious experience as these relate to these two religions?
Mystical religion involves a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny often stemming from direct communion with ultimate reality or God. It usually entails practices neither apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence beyond ordinary understanding such as complicated astrology, communication with spirits accompanied by mysterious symbols. On the other hand, numinous religion involves the belief that certain places, objects and even living things hold mysterious and holy quality which makes one feel excited. The people that practice this religion therefore find it, fearful and awe-inspiring. They hold sacred and treat with ultimate respect whatever it is that they believe is filled with or characterized by a sense of a supernatural presence. …show more content…
Buddhism teaches that all things in the universe, including both passive material phenomena and subjective spiritual phenomena, are subject to the working of a principle that everything is impermanent. It also teaches that nothing has its own independence and that, all events follow from a package of prior events, all matters in the universe are the results determined by the effort and deeds, good or bad of the beings in it, not to be created or controlled by any supernatural power. Purification of consciousness through achieving the state of emptiness is the central element of
Distinguishing between mystical and numinous religious experience, contrast Hinduism and Buddhism from the perspective outlined by Nanina Smart. Why do you agree or disagree with Smart 's distinction of the two kinds of religious experience as these relate to these two religions?
Mystical religion involves a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny often stemming from direct communion with ultimate reality or God. It usually entails practices neither apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence beyond ordinary understanding such as complicated astrology, communication with spirits accompanied by mysterious symbols. On the other hand, numinous religion involves the belief that certain places, objects and even living things hold mysterious and holy quality which makes one feel excited. The people that practice this religion therefore find it, fearful and awe-inspiring. They hold sacred and treat with ultimate respect whatever it is that they believe is filled with or characterized by a sense of a supernatural presence. …show more content…
Buddhism teaches that all things in the universe, including both passive material phenomena and subjective spiritual phenomena, are subject to the working of a principle that everything is impermanent. It also teaches that nothing has its own independence and that, all events follow from a package of prior events, all matters in the universe are the results determined by the effort and deeds, good or bad of the beings in it, not to be created or controlled by any supernatural power. Purification of consciousness through achieving the state of emptiness is the central element of