as the targeted audience of the mission were not laymen but instead‚ Buddhist monks and practitioners. This explains the construction features throughout the entirety of the church. By adapting to a Buddhist construction style‚ it allows the Buddhist or Taoist monks to feel perfectly at home. According to the tour guides and the descriptive video played during the beginning of the tour‚ Reichelt believed that the Buddhist monks‚ having already been devoted to religion‚ are perfect for conversion
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and Buddhist cultures. The structures that these people built‚ were not made just for a place to worship. They represented many things to their builders‚ but mostly they represented the way to “heaven.” To the people of ancient Mesopotamia‚ their temple was the home of their god. The temples were built on top of large “stepped” brick structures called ziggurats. On the outside‚ they might have covered the lower “steps” with dirt and planted trees and bushes to give the illusion of a temple on top
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three main aspects: literature‚ art and ideology. Many famous poems have ideas from Buddhism and many Buddhist stone statues can be found‚ which show its huge influence. It also promotes the countries’ intercultural communications with foreign countries. In Tang Dynasty (618 - 907)‚ Jianzhen traveled to Japan to spread Buddhism as well as Chinese culture. Xuanzang‚ who traveled to India to learn Buddhist doctrines‚ he brought back with him plenty of information
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3.8 percent Hinduism by 0.5 percent and Animism by 0.2 percent before respectively in Myanmar. Myanmar is a predominantly Theravada Buddhist country. Buddhism reached Myanmar around the beginning of the Christian era‚ mingling with Hinduism (also imported from India) and indigenous animism in Myanmar. The Pyu and Mon kingdoms of the first millennium were Buddhist‚ but the early Burmese Myanmar peoples were animists. According to Myanmar religion Burma traditional history‚ Myanmar King Anawrahta
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if you had a girl‚ it brought bad luck to the family. Although‚ Women were invited to participate in the religion by Gautama Buddha‚ Ladies in the Buddhist religion couldn’t become monks. The Buddhist founders believed that women should have equal rights to men when it came to worshiping. But‚ they were uncertain that women could uphold the Buddhist communities strong patrons. Eventually‚ Buddhism came around and allowed women to participate and join as part of the monastic culture; only if they
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Eastern religious traditions play a role in everyday medicine. The question is what role does it play? Modern medicine is a lot different than what it was back in the day. It is clear that the facts of modern medicine agree marvelously with the Bible. For example‚ the Mosaic regulations pertaining to childbirth‚ sexual relationships‚ hand-washing‚ wound and discharge care‚ quarantining‚ burial precautions‚ and waste disposal are examples which indicate that diseases are communicable‚ and that
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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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taught about earthy suffering and its cure for spiritual gain. Buddhism teaches that liberation from your suffering depends on you. They believe in your efforts to understand how suffering is created for themselves only then can they be free. Buddhists believe in order to seek spiritual truth you must lead a simple and humble life. Daoism and Buddhism are similar in that they both call for their followers to live a humble life. They both believe in the unity of all things rather than separating
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God”. Not every religion requires a mosque‚ temple‚ or church to worship in‚ sometimes worship is done outdoors or even inside the home. For Buddhists‚ worship can be done either in the home or in a temple and there is no set day of the week that everyone gathers for prayer as in other religions such as Christianity. Some will set up a room inside their homes that is decorated with a Buddha statue and candles. Some will choose to burn incense. Temples are typically set up to symbolize fire‚ water
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Gaya- The Maha Bodhi Temple-The historical place at which the Enlightenment took place became a place of pilgrimage. About 250 years after the Enlightenment‚ the Buddhist Emperor‚ Ashoka visited the site and is considered the founder of the Mahabodhi Temple. Bodhgaya Revitalised- Since 1953‚ Bodh Gaya has been developed as an international place of pilgrimage. Buddhists from Sri Lanka‚ Thailand‚ Burma‚ Tibet‚ Bhutan and Japan have established monasteries and temples within easy walking distance
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