Indian architecture encompasses a wide variety of geographically and historically spread structures‚ and was transformed by the history of the Indian subcontinent. The result is an evolving range of architectural production that‚ although it is difficult to identify a single representative style‚ nonetheless retains a certain amount of continuity across history. The diversity of Indian culture is represented in its architecture. It is a blend of ancient and varied native traditions‚ with building
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Emptiness is an important idea in Buddhism‚ especially in Mahayana Buddhism. Thich Nhat Hanh’s commentaries in The Heart of Understanding and in The Dalai Lama’s descriptions follow the same basic idea and concepts of the emptiness doctrine. Another important idea in Buddhism is dependent origination. Emptiness has a very detailed meaning within Buddhist culture. Emptiness in western cultures is different than what some other cultures may believe in. Our culture sees emptiness as having nothing
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Buddhism The ways of Buddhism is one of the oldest teachings from ancient history and now stands as the third largest religion. Founded by Guatama‚ Buddhism was created in India. With Buddhism being born in India‚ it shares similarities to Hinduism‚ which created many varieties of Buddhism. Buddhism today is not expressed as a single religion because there are many types of Buddhists. Two main types of Buddhism came about‚ which are the Theravadas and the Mahayana Buddhists. With the world evolving
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Christianity: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth God made the earth as well as the sun‚ moon and stars. He created plants‚ animals‚ man and woman. He saw that his work was good and he rested after the heavens and the earth were finished. Man disobeyed God The first man and woman God made were named Adam and Eve. Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden and God commanded him that he could eat of any tree in the garden except from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
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The Influence of Chinese Culture on Buddhism Buddhism was originally developed in India and brought to China over the silk road‚ and later to some extent through southeast Asia around the first century A.D.. This was during a time when the then reigning Han dynasty was in a state of chaos and Confucianism was being discredited by some intellectuals. The Chinese people therefore came to identify Confucianism with the failing dynasty‚ and sought a new ideology to take place of stale Confucian thinking
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Buddhism Deanna Hall REL 133 January 26‚ 2015 Isabelle Rucks Buddhism In this paper‚ there will be a summary of the history of Buddhism and the life of Buddha‚ the basic teachings of Buddhism‚ and what makes the Zen Buddhism special school of the Mahayana Buddhism‚ unique. The Chan school of Mahayana Buddhism was created in China in the 6th-century C.E. Allegedly it was spread from Japan in the 12th century C.E. There was an Indian Monk and scholar named Bodhidharma that has the acknowledgment
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Are Confucianism and Buddhism religions? To answer this question one must first find the definition of the word religion. According to our text book the word religion come from the Latin word religio which means awe for the gods and concern for proper ritual (experiencing the worlds religion 3). The definition of the word religion according to several dictionaries is a belief in a divine or superhuman power or powers to be obeyed and worshiped as the creator and the ruler of the universe‚ or any
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According to our lecture notes and Frontline’s “From Jesus to Christ” there exist similarities between Christianity and Mithraism‚ the Essenes‚ Pharisees and Sadducees. For example in comparison with the Mithraism‚ Christianity also believes that Jesus (Messiah) was born from a virgin mother and that shepherds attended his birth. Both Mithraism and Christianity believed that there was a hell and a heaven and that good versus evil existed. These two religions worship on Sundays‚ celebrate with bread
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12/17/2010 Five Pillars of Islam Islam is a monotheism religion. This means that they believe in a sole God (Allah) and that this is the only God. They also believe that this God’s purpose is creation‚ sustenance‚ guidance‚ and judgment. They believe that their purpose is to make the world a better place. The Five Pillars are a foundation for their religion. The first pillar is belief and witness. This means giving full belief to Allah and spreading the word of this faith. The second pillar
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regions far away from the Himalaya and other inter-plate boundaries‚ which were once considered to be relatively safe from strong shaking‚ have also experienced several devastating earthquakes. The huge losses of life and property in the earthquake-prone areas of the country have shown that the built-environment is extremely fragile‚ and country’s ability to respond to these events is extremely inadequate. Post earthquake damage survey revealed that 90% of casualties result directly from the collapse
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