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...ian religions the Vedic-Brah­ manic system here claims twenty-one volumes, Buddhism ten, and J ainism two. Eight volumes comprise translations of the... ...ations, Professor Max Muller for the first time placed the historical and comparative study of religions on a solid foundation. But with that large ... ...­ culated to stimulate both the historical investigation of each, and the comparative study of all, of the religious systems dealt with in the serie... ...losophy, vols. 1, 8, 15, 34, 38, 48. (d) Laws, vols. 2, 7, 14,25,33. II. BUDDHISM, voIs. 10, 11, 13, 17, 19,20,21,35,36,49. III. GAINA RELIGION, vo...

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... If they are looking for answers they should not look to Vedanta or Zen Buddhism. Those sects don't have any answers for their problems. The scien... ...ure creates something then it destroys it and creates something else. The comparative process characteristic of thinking seems to be absent. The whol...

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...eology and Christian mysticism. Dr Padmasiri de Silva is a Buddhist philosopher in the Theravada tradition and has written a number of books about Buddhism in the modern context. He has held teaching positions in Sri Lanka, Singapore, the US and New Zealand, and is a research associate with the School of Historical Studies at Monash University ...

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...efore can be misleading. I have been extremely regretful for my ideological errors and mistakes in previous publications, especially those concerning Buddhism. As I mentioned in this book, I am not qualified. So please note that I am limited in my knowledge and enlightenment of the giant of Chinese heritage. I can express nothing more than my personal bias....

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...F. Liu. 22 -- Annotation in the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics. 27 -- Neutrosophic Dialogues. 51 -- Absolute Truth. 68 -- Science, Destiny, and Buddhism. 79 -- Call for Papers. 94 -- Neutrosophy and Dialectic, postface by Anthony Mansueto. 95 --...

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... Absolute Truth……………………………………………………………………………68 Science, Destiny, and Buddhism……………………………………………………….…79 Call for Papers……………………………………………………………... ...errors and mistakes in previous publications, especially those concerning Buddhism. As I mentioned in this book, I am not qualified. So please note... ...ecially in traditional Chinese culture, or specifically, Confucianism and Buddhism. 2. The Distinct Perspectives of the Universe How much do ... ... universe and have to keep harmony. Through proper educations, especially Buddhism, countless people do succeed to see the ultimate true world (e.g.... ...s, http://www.amtb.org.tw, http://www.amtb.org.sg for the introduction of Buddhism.). Is science a kind of truth or illusion? If it is a truth, w... ...USTAV JUNG (The world's leading psychologist from Zurich):“As a student of comparative religions, I believe that Buddhism is the most perfect one tha...

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...lagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based ...

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...03 * From tradition to belief in development 104 Buddhist religion Buddhism of the village community 107 From local religion to national fait... ...s work, as in all my other research projects, I have endeavoured to obtain comparative data from several localities or over a long period, and also to... ...hat also affected the villagers' lives and is reflected in their accounts. Comparative statistical data was collected by questionnaires which were ret... ... that everyone in this village should learn the five basic commandments of Buddhism. If we were to obey them, we wouldn't commit sins or be too selfis... ...In his view, local economy works even when large-scale industry stagnates. Buddhism has thrived in village communities, and its ideology supports the ... ...counts are superimposed on two religious world views: ancestral belief and Buddhism.According to the ancestral belief system, the dead are reborn with... ...f international statistics on economics, sociology and education, uniform comparative figures for development and growth (imperialism of cultural m... ...y 2. — 1966. Kinship and Worldview in Thailand. The Research Institute of Comparative Education and Culture. Research Bulletin 16. Kyushu University... ...65, 480–488. — (ed.) 1969. Loosely Structured Social Systems. Thailand in Comparative Perspective. Yale University. Southeast Asia Studies. Cultural...

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... in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and special notes. In the Government section, a new entry on dependent areas has also been added....

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...nd Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary d... ...nd/or coastlines, excluding inland water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, rivers). Comparative areas are based on total area equivalents. Boundary disputes:... ...gional map VIII Geography Total area: 647,500 km 2 ; land area: 647,500 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of Texas Land boundaries: 5,510 km total... ...c rtf ionil map V Geography Total area: 28,750 km 2 ; land area: 27,400 km 2 Comparative area: slightly larger than Maryland Land boundaries: 716 km t... ...iul mip VII Geography Total area: 2,381,740 km 2 ; land area: 2,381,740 km 2 Comparative area: more than three times the size of Texas Land boundaries... ...5% ethnic Nepalese, 15% indigenous or migrant tribes Religion: 75% Lamaistic Buddhism, 25% Indian- and Nepalese-influenced Hinduism Language: Bhotes s... ...Khmer (Cambo- dian), 5% Chinese, 5% other minorities Religion: 95% Theravada Buddhism, 5% other Language: Khmer (official), French Life expectancy: me... ... eclectic; most important elements of religion are Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism; about 2-3% Mus- lim, 1% Christian Language: Standard Chinese (P... ...Korean(s); adjective Korean Ethnic divisions: racially homogeneous Religion: Buddhism and Confucianism; religious activities now almost nonexistent La...

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...ted work is as layered and subversive as mythology itself. Based directly on authentic Buddhist texts, and informed with insights from psychology and comparative mythology, it takes a fresh look at how Buddhist women have been depicted by men and how they have depicted themselves....

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...errelated Religious Systems The Connection Between Psychology And Religion Buddhism 16 Hindu Beliefs The Establishment Of Buddhism The Nature Of The B... ...ture Of The Break From Hinduism The Spiritual Dimension The Development Of Buddhism Since Gautama The Essence Of Buddhism The Concept Of The Buddha Bu... ...autama The Essence Of Buddhism The Concept Of The Buddha Buddhist Yoga Zen Buddhism And Jung Christianity 59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Ma... ... excursions into the conceptual worlds of oriental religions, particularly Buddhism. These I found very helpful in unders- tanding what symbols relate... ... religion that have general validity. The establishment of a Department of Comparative Religion at the University of Chicago in 1892 might be said to ... ...iversity of Chicago in 1892 might be said to have inaugurated the study of Comparative Religion as an academic discipline in its own right. This happe... ...verts, usually to some form of Christianity. Even now books concerned with Comparative Religion or the History of Religions tend to devote the giant’s... ...igious Atheism? Early Buddhist and Recent American”, Australian Society of Comparative Religion, Melbourne (Australia), 1966, an offprint from Milla w... ... of spirituality. Actually, even from the start Brown knew something about comparative religion, as his earlier footnotes reveal, for he mentions Hind...

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...ictory utterances form the core of the Taoism and Zen/Chan (which emerged from Buddhism and Taoism) doctrines. How to judge the truth-value of a met... ...world. The whole induction of such argument is based on the intensive study on Buddhism and Daoism including I-ching. In addition, a framework of co... ...tentionally instead of negation that leads to confusion. It is also shown that Buddhism and Daoism play an important role in neutrosophy, and should... ...ntention of neutrosophy. Keywords: Neutrosophy, Multi-valued logic, I-ching, Buddhism, Dao, Yin-yang, Creativity, Contradiction, Illusion, Learnin... ...gift rather than logic rules, acquired largely after birth, e.g., through Buddhism practice. Note that our creativity lies just between interna... ...ing (including this hypothesis the author believes) are merely infant sciences comparative to those in the Pure Lands, said by one of the most famou... ...k, suggest instead approaches that adopt more natural human ways of expressing comparative variability and reasoning. Additionally the advantages of ...

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...ere to be distressed for subsistence. Max Weber, perhaps the most outstanding comparative sociologist of all time, clearly defined the social identi... ...anyone takes a statistics of the number of people converting to Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism or Islam from their native religion, Dalits would to... ...s texts Devaram and Prabandam was only to destroy and ruin the principles of Buddhism and to establish caste, religion, god and the epics and puran... ...a himself said so, and he said it candidly. [Viduthalai, 7-3-1954] 265 Buddhism We, the working people, have been made into low caste; we ar... ...s, if you ask such questions the god will get angry. It was resolved in the Buddhism Propaganda Conference at Erode that such a god needs to be ab... ...Tamil word. There is no word in Tamil for that. [Viduthalai, 28-12-1956] Buddhism There is no religion like Buddhism. There are only a few doc... ... 1. Despite overall declining rates, incidence of poverty among SCs remains comparatively higher than in the total population 2. That about 50% o... ...Jose A.B. Tomè, Rule-based Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Fuzzy Cognitive Maps – a Comparative Study. In Proc. of the 18 th International Conference of ... ... India, Higginbotham, Madras (1871). 13. Chatterjee, Debi, Up Against Caste: Comparative Study of Ambedkar and Periyar, Rawat Publications, New De...

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... of an idea is also determined by external (pro, contra, neuter) factors (Comparative Philosophy, as comparative literature). Between particul... ...) was then considered the savior of Hinduism, just in the moment when the Buddhism and the Jainism were in a severe turmoil and India was in a spiri... ... culture does not differ much from the precedents - culture even repeats, comparatively to the science's exponential growth. Culture The ratio ., ... ...eath of mind and action). Your happiness is inside of yourself (from Buddhism). Thus, God is inside of man. Your sadness too. But man is in... ...y utterances form the core of the Taoism and Zen/Chan (which emerged from Buddhism and Taoism) doctrines. How to judge the truth-value of a metaphor...

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...n a special god, but some Buddhist sects do and some, such as ‗Pure Land‘ Buddhism believe in a hereafter like the monotheistic religions. While eac... ...ther aspect of the world because all is god. ―And then there is Buddhism which should probably not even be called a religion because it is... ...o to your neighbor. This is the whole torah; all the rest is commentary.‘ Buddhism teaches ‗Treat not others in ways that yourself would find hurtful... ...ave the tools to question traditions you should be an expert in logic, in comparative religions, in cosmology, in evolutionary biology. Would a high... ...erers and ruthless conquerors. ―Should we look to the success of Buddhism with its peaceful, non-god based approach or to the wars of Islam... ...uddhist would renounce them all for inner peace. Should we therefore push Buddhism or should we recognize the Western passion for more and better of ... ...kers‘ output! ―In the 33 years from 1970 to 2003 if we look at the comparative level of European prosperity, Sweden dropped from fifth to 14 ... ...a and to other mainlands and islands. This gave him far more geologic and comparative evidence than any of the other theorists hypothesizing evoluti...

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...and Energy-Flow Pg 782 The Conflict of Human Values vs. Tool Values Pg 790 Comparative Tool-use Pg 791 Creativity Pg 791 Creativity and Human ... ...erely relative relationships that can be expressed in relative proportions as comparative fractions that do not change proportionally between themsel... ...he elite chosen ones… a culture superior to all other cultures. If you study comparative cultures, you will find that all… and I do mean all cultur... ...ver done this, is inside the context of civilization. There has never been a comparative study done outside of this basic, common context. ... ...tion; we have no other models to use for comparison. Because of having no comparative basis, this root question of human existence and awareness ... ...ur family at an early age, and study under famous Buddhist sages, and practice Buddhism all your life; you will not become a famous Buddhist sage. O... ... So, if you can't use it: then why value it? If you examine the goals of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Shintoism, and all the other religions ... ...e starving, teeming ignorant millions of Indians. If the spiritual legacy of Buddhism has not worked for 3,000 years: then what the fuck is it good ... ...Eastern shit; simply because their own spiritual culture is even emptier than Buddhism. The same is true for Chinese Spiritual teachings. If af...

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...? And what is Dan's role in all this? Who, exactly, then, is Dan? II. Who is Dan? Buddhism compares Man to a river. Both retain their identity des... ...erbally and is beyond empirical (and illusory) phenomena. Eastern thought (e.g. Zen Buddhism) uses intuition (or experience) to study reality in a n... ...cism, Nazism, Socialism and other isms - are more akin to Islam than to, let's say, Buddhism. They are universal, prescriptive, and total. They prov... ...psychology echo the schism that opened in the monotheistic religions (and in early Buddhism) between the profane and the sacred, the here and the b... ...ces of survival at any given gauging moment. It is through its role as a universal comparative scale - that it came to acquire the might that it po...

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...? And what is Dan's role in all this? Who, exactly, then, is Dan? II. Who is Dan? Buddhism compares Man to a river. Both retain their identity des... ...erbally and is beyond empirical (and illusory) phenomena. Eastern thought (e.g. Zen Buddhism) uses intuition (or experience) to study reality in a n... ...cism, Nazism, Socialism and other isms - are more akin to Islam than to, let's say, Buddhism. They are universal, prescriptive, and total. They prov... ...psychology echo the schism that opened in the monotheistic religions (and in early Buddhism) between the profane and the sacred, the here and the b... ...ces of survival at any given gauging moment. It is through its role as a universal comparative scale - that it came to acquire the might that it po...

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...hristian theology altogether a clue can still be found to many problems in comparative theology in this distinction between the Being of Nature (cf. K... ...ht of the Essenes and the Orphic cult and in the Persian dualism. So, too, Buddhism seems to be “an- tagonistic.” On the other hand, the Moslem teachi... ...radiction. The truly religious have been content to lapse quietly into the comparative sanity of an unformulated Arianism, they have left it to the sc... ...the Deity, having once decided upon intervention, did not, instead of this comparatively trivial meteorological assistance, adopt the more effective c... ...ividual death, and by a future life the prolongation of individuality. But Buddhism does not in truth appear ever to have been concerned with that, an... ...opments are certainly not under that preoccupation with the narrower self. Buddhism indeed so far from “preaching resignation” to death, seeks as its ... ...complete as to be absolute release from the individual’s burthen of Karma. Buddhism seeks an escape from individual immortality. The deeper one pursue... ...n as if he were innocent, to save him from unjustly heavy penalties…. This comparatively full discussion of the barrister’s prob- lem has been embarke...

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...cre- ated chemistry? At the same time, Lambert, at a later period, studied comparative anatomy, physics, geometry, and other sciences bearing on his d... ...h penury.’ “We looked up at the sky and grasped hands. We first met at the Comparative Anatomy course, and in the galler- ies of the Museum, attracted... ... which we may walk and find no pitfalls in our way!’ “You will wonder what comparative anatomy has to do with a question of such importance to the fu... ... the Arab race. Finally, Swedenborg bor- rowed from Magianism, Brahmanism, Buddhism, and Christian mysticism all the truth and divine beauty that thos...

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...Thomas Troward was a divisional Judge in British-administered India. His avocation was the study of comparative religion. Influences on his thinking, as well as his later writing, included the teachings of Christ, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. After his retirement from the judiciary in 1896, Troward set out to apply logic ...

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...ism and pluralism may be beneficial: Authoritarian governance system comes in several flavors, and can be organized around a belief system (Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Confucianism, et al); a social order (communism, socialism, mercantilism); military leadership (juntas of various degrees and social orientations); philosophical strain (utopianism, stoicism, re...

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... Asia Identity Markers: Uran, Tamga, Dastan Thoughts on "Religious Fundamentalism" Identity in Central Asia Views of the 'outlaw concept' in comparative perspective: 'The American West' and the "Zeybeks in the Turk lands" Benjamin Franklin and Nasreddin of Asia Minor An open letter to the editorial board of Hurriyat (Mustakil Gazeta), Tashkent Ozbek Republ...

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...indigenous Tengri and Shamanism,20 which appears to have co- existed with Zoroastrianism, prevailed even after the arrival of other religions such as Buddhism and Manichaeanism.21 The introduction of Islam into Central Asia went through roughly three stages: force of arms and alms; the scholasticist madrasa; Sufism. But the first group to come into contact with Islam in Ce...

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...5) Vol. V Central Asia's New Dastans Central Asian Survey Vol. 6, No. 1, 198 Chora Batir: A Tatar Admonition to Future Generations Studies in Comparative Communism Vol. XIX, Nos. 3-4, Autumn/Winter 1986 Two Mythical PANs: Uses of Apocrypha Ascribed to the Turks Eurasian Studies (Ankara) Summer 1994; Translation in Avrasya Etri (Ankara) Yaz, 2, 199 Two Altaic ...

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...gible account of their ideas and motives. These men, of course, are either comparatively modern writers, or else such earlier ones as have become reli... ...d usually calls reli- gious, and yet which do not positively assume a God. Buddhism is in this case. Popularly, of course, the Buddha himself stands i... ...dulge in misery, beginning at 92 The V arieties of Religious Experience a comparatively small point within ourselves, may not stop until it has broug... ...ore seem to be those in which the pessimistic elements are best developed. Buddhism, of course, and Christianity are the best known to us of these. Th... ...d the lower feelings, the useful and the erring impulses, begin by being a comparative chaos within us—they must end by forming a stable system of fun... ...hy gutter. “There is no doubt in my mind that pure Christian- ity and pure Buddhism, and the Mental Sciences and all Religions fundamentally teach wha... ... mere derivatives of theism. We find them in Stoicism, in Hinduism, and in Buddhism in the highest possible degree. They har- monize with paternal the... ...py. But all these intellectual operations, whether they be constructive or comparative and critical, presup- pose immediate experiences as their subje... ...us Experience him, I should scarcely be able to work at all; for it is now comparatively a rare thing that a day comes when I am not in need for one o...

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...ct class of the whole race of mankind, and even the interest in these few is comparatively short lived. To have been a benefactor to the world, whethe... ...en produced by a few minds appearing in three or four favoured nations, in a comparatively short period of time. May we be allowed to imagine the mind... ...e see how the human mind in all the higher religions of the world, including Buddhism, notwith standing some aberrations, has tended towards such a b... ...ief in modern times than is found in early Greek philoso phy, and hence the comparative silence on the whole subject which is often remarked in ancie... ... him about the sun and moon and stars, and that he would explain to me their comparative swiftness, and their returnings and various states, active an... ... is Phaedo, but because Phaedo has greatness rela tively to Simmias, who is comparatively smaller? That is true. And therefore Simmias is said to be ...

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...ALKS CONTINUED to be almost a necessity to Mrs. Joseph Brownlow, even when comparatively sobered down, and there were few days on which she was not to... ...seldom enjoyed for Uncle James’s Indian and Crimean campaigns, and for the comparative merits of the regiments his nephew had beheld at reviews. He wa... ...ture in science and literature without any bias in favour of Christianity, Buddhism, or any other sublime religion. Meantime he was going home to make... ... equally honourable best man, so that she found herself seated between two comparative strangers; while it seemed to her that Lucas Brownlow was keepi... ...et it published and revise the proofs. It proved to be a disser- tation on Buddhism, containing such a bitter attack upon Christianity that Jock was s...