Phil Jackson coached the Chicago Bulls basketball team to one of the longest winning streaks in professional sports. In his book‚ Sacred Hoops‚ he describes his approach to coaching a group of acknowledged stars. He clearly understands that simply collecting a set of outstanding players does not a championship team make. One way of understanding his approach is to think of every problem or project having components in four different spheres: 1. Mental‚ logical‚ scientific‚ technical 2. Systems
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Canada. It deals specifically with the main practice of the Pure Land School – Buddha Recitation – and covers both the noumenal and phenomenal aspects of that practice. The treatise is accompanied by the detailed commentary of an Elder Master of the Zen and Pure Land lineages. Readers not familiar with Pure Land theory may wish to begin
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compassion (karuna). 4 Metaphysics is avoided . 4Metaphusics is elaborated. 5The ideal is the Arhat.( one who has 5 The ideal is the Bodhisattva. broken the wheel of rebirth). 2 Briefly ( but thoroughly ) describe characteristics of Jodo‚Zen‚ Shingon‚ Tendai‚ and Nichiren Buddhism. Jodo: is called The Pure Land Sect ( Ching – T’ U‚ Jodo) : This from is extremely popular and sounds far more ‘’ religious’’ than some other forms of Buddhism. Followers believe in a Paradise ‚ the Pure Land of theWest or the
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claims to have personally visited the Yong Ning Temple and to have met there an old Persian “Barbarian” (foreigner) named Sramana Bodhidharma‚ who stated that he was 150 years old. The Buddhist scholar Guifeng Zongni (780-841) quoted an old Buddhist Koan (riddle) that asks‚ “Why did Bodhidharma come from the West?” Dao Zuan’s Xu gao seng zhuan (“Biographies of Eminent Tang Monks”)‚ written in 645‚ gives the earliest record of Bodhidharma’s life. The second most important biography is Dao Yuan’s Jing
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Introduction to World Religions: Guided Reading Questions #7 1. Where is Wat Bovorn temple? Tht Wat Bovom temple is near Khao San Road and is next to a canal and is one of the greenest and most peaceful temples in Bangkok. 2. What does Buddha mean? Buddha means the "awakened one". 3. Summarize Siddhartha’s life before he left the palace building for the first time. 4. What are the Four Passing Signs? 5. What is the Great Going Forth? 6. What did Siddhartha do between the Great
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RL ST 001: INTRODUCTION TO WORLD RELIGIONS STUDY GUIDE FOR THE FIRST EXAM The most consistent feature of the various religions that originated in India is belief in karma and reincarnation. HINDUISM Hindus call their religion Sanatana Dharma‚ which means Everlasting Teaching. Hinduism has no single founder‚ and is not centrally organized. Who is a Hindu? A Hindu is anyone who • accepts the authority of the Vedas. • is a native Indian and not a Parsee (Zoroastrian)‚ a Jew‚ a Christian
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mind watching ads for the products its computers hear you talking about. The book presents 7 ‘koans’ or principles regarding the bits and the effect of it on humanity. Koan 1: Even though your computer seems to present pictures‚ texts‚ songs‚ and videos‚ they are all composed of bits. Everything that’s digital are ruled by bits. Even as we speak‚ bits are flying through the airwaves by our phones. Koan 2:
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Jomon: about 300 BC‚ when Japan was inhabited by a hunter-gatherer culture which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity. Yayoi: is an Iron Age era in the history of Japan traditionally dated 300 BC to AD 300. Techniques in metallurgy based on the use of bronze and iron were also introduced in this period. Kofun:is an era in the history of Japan from around 250 to 538. It follows the Yayoi period. The word kofun is Japanese for the type of burial mounds dating from
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Thomas W.‚ trans. 1881. Buddhist Sutras (F. Max Müller‚ ed.‚ Sacred Books of the East‚ 11). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ______‚ trans. 1880. The Questions of King Milinda‚ Part I (sbe‚ 35). Oxford: Clarendon Press. Suzuki‚ D.T. 1991. An Introduction to Zen Buddhism. New York: Grove Press. Tsunoda‚ Ryusaku. 1958. Sources of Japanese Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press.
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University of Phoenix Material Appendix D Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Ethnic group |Being a member of an ethnic group‚ especially of a group that is a minority within a larger society. | |Anti-Semitism |Discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews. | |Islamophobia
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