Short Writing Assignment # 2 Topic: The Spread of Religions 11/20/2011 Question 1: How did Buddhism‚ Christianity‚ and Islam spread across the world‚ and why are they practiced so far from their origins? Answer 1: Buddhism‚ Christianity‚ and Islam spread across the world by use of four common practices. Missionaries spread the faith to new areas. These missionaries adapted their message to the existing culture of the area and adopted elements of existing religious traditions. Pilgrimage
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12 ESSAYS ON BUDDHISM [Critical & analytical studies] by Ven. DHAMMAVIHARI ________________________________________________________________________ International Buddhist Research and Information Center (IBRIC) -Sri Lanka 380/9 Bauddhaloka Mw‚ Colombo -7‚ Sri Lanka
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The spread of Christianity Christianity is one of the monotheistic religion built on the life and teaching of Jesus Christ. who serve as the core point for the religion. Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the son and the savior of humanity whose coming as the messiah. Christianity arose from three distinct cultural traditions: Greco-Roman‚ Near Eastern (West Asian)‚ and Hebraic. it’s one of the oldest living religion in the western world. But first originally arise from Jewish community. Paul
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Cultural interaction in religion: How does Buddhism impact other aspects of culture? Social and Dietary S - Many Buddhist concepts/ terms are present and used in western society -Karma (used frequently as sense of fate) -“Nirvana” (the name of a band in western society; in Buddhist religion‚ Nirvana is the supreme state free from suffering and individual existence. It is a state Buddhists refer to as "Enlightenment". The attainment of nirvana breaks the otherwise endless rebirth cycle of
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Buddhism in America Buddhism first came to America in the late 1800’s from the Europeans. 1893 is the year most often given to the birth of Buddhism in America. It was said to have come over during the first World Parliament of Religions‚ which took place in Chicago The first known Buddhist monk in the Western hemisphere was‚ Allan Bennett. He eventually took the name Ananda Metteya. As Buddhism began to flower in America‚ it began to influence important thinkers‚ who in turn influenced
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Hinduism and Buddhism have different similarities and are in some ways connected to each other. Some of the practices of the two religions are similar in many different ways and there are several examples to show this. Hinduism first started in India around 1500 BC. The word Hindu comes from the word "sindhu" or river. The Hindu community think of themselves as "those who believe in the Vedas"‚ or "those who follow the way or dharma of the four classes and the stages of life. The four classes being
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As stated in Prothero‚ “The Buddha is just a human being in the earliest forms of Buddhism.” Buddhist’s beliefs towards what happens before and after life are very different from other religions. For every religion‚ the value of the human life is substantial. For Buddhists however‚ human’s statuses are ranked at the lower end of the spectrum. While having a main purpose of seeking out the Dharma‚ humans can be seen as respectable because they have the accessibility to seek out the dharma. Buddhists
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Test Essay Even though Hinduism and Buddhism have similar roots‚ Buddhism differs greatly from Hinduism in practices in life because Buddhism has formal structure instead of Hinduism’s loose structure. Both Hinduism and Buddhism arose in South Asia‚ and thus stem from a similar philosophy and culture. Except for the fact that there is no single founder of Hinduism and Hinduism was not founded as a religion. The Buddhism way of life was created by Siddhartha Gautama. His main goal was to have a
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One basic concept of Buddhism is the idea of impermanence. This principle is the foundation of everything Buddhism is built upon. Moreover‚ change is an inevitable part of the cycle of life that every living being on this Earth will experience at some point or another. According to Sogyal‚ “There is only one law in the universe that never changes – that all things change‚ and that all things are impermanent” (p. 26). Impermanence can be seen in various aspects of our lives; some of these instances
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your essay. In addition to that write out your thesis and identify a missing voice. I encourage you to fully complete this essay. Outline Document 1 : - Original teachings of Buddhism - Said by the Buddha‚ no bias Document 2 : - Pro Buddhism - Zhi Dun‚ Chinese scholar‚ bias upper class - time period when China was under invasion Document 3 : - Pro Buddhism - Another scholar‚ biased - Compares Buddhism to Confucianism positively Document 4 : - Con Buddhism - Confucian
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