The Best of Odisha Buddhist Tour will introduce travelers to the most prominent destinations of
Buddhist faith.
Cultural reluctance to euthanize even severely suffering animals, intertwined with
the Buddhist faith of about a third of the Taiwan population, led in the 1980s and 1990s to some government shelters simply allowing impounded dogs to cannibalize each other or starve to death.
Goldberg draws heavily on
her Buddhist faith (mixed with her Jewish background) to show how mindlessness and freedom help a writer to actually write.
- booksnob How do Raami and her family's
Buddhist faith help them endure life under the Khmer Rouge?
The key concept that is taught to the children is to understand the way of life of Siddartha Gautama by identifying the four truths, relating the four truths to the way of life of Buddhists and explaining why the Buddha was important to
the Buddhist faith.
I would not venture on the ground of
the Buddhist faith in the reincarnation.
In his book, Types of Religious Experience, Christian and Non-Christian (1951), the author of this paper has attempted an analysis of the differences between the Christian and the Mahayana -
Buddhist faith.
But he rejected the saving power of
Buddhist faith simply because it is not directed to the figure of Jesus.
But the encounter with Pure Land
Buddhist faith leads to the recognition that this is not so.
This form of Christianity can not but stand in contradiction to
Buddhist faith.
Specifically in Pure Land Buddhism, must faith be directed toward figures reverenced in traditional Buddhist teaching in order for it to be
Buddhist faith?
If Muslims» faith is granted the holidays, then there are several holidays in Hindu, and
Buddhist faiths that deserve to be observed.
Will you forego Christianity entirely and become a champion of the Muslim or
Buddhist faiths?»
Though some members of the Jewish, Christian, Hindu, and
Buddhist faiths were reportedly offended by the image, sources confirmed that upon seeing it, they simply shook their heads, rolled their eyes, and continued on with their day.»
Not exact matches
I visited churches filled with new believers, many who came out of animist or
Buddhist upbringings, often alone in their families, to confess
faith in the risen Christ.
Falsity has existed within all
faiths, from Christian to
Buddhist, and does so within Islam.
Ask any
Buddhist if they think the Christian tenet regarding
faith in Christ's atoning work is true.
Or should I devoted myself to Buddhism until my
faith in
Buddhist teachings develops?
The formulation of the other Christian challenges my formulation of Christian
faith in a way that the
Buddhist formulation does not.
«Practitioners of Falun Gong, as well as other
Buddhist, folk religionist, and Protestant groups deemed «superstitious» or «evil cults» face long jail terms, forced denunciations of
faith and torture in detention, and the government has not sufficiently answered accusations of psychiatric experimentation and organ harvesting.»
Thomas visits a
Buddhist group and is severely shaken in his inability to witness to them about his own
faith in Christ.
There are people all around the world dying because of their
faith, whether Jewish, Muslim, Christian,
Buddhist, or etc. «Martyrdom» may remind you of Christianity's history of «violence, intolerance, and fanaticism»... but why be reminded of something that ocurred in the past when religious persecution is still happening today among people of all kinds of
faiths, including Christians?
He suggests that the
Buddhist categories of
faith that end in the experience of Nirvana can be used «as a mode of entry into the original form of Christianity.
Muslim, Christian, Jew,
Buddhist, Atheist, etc.... however all are American first One is not comfortable with the other, however each lives with the other based on inter
faith and universal values All share the same primary core belief... the belief in freedom of rights and religion This core belief is a reliigion in itself, which all worship before their «traditional religion» It is, as Daniel said... the «god of fortresses»
Pádraig has a similar view: «For people of
faith, the source of all goodness is God, whether or not it comes with a
Buddhist or Christian stamp on it.»
Brigitte, it would seem that you are a Lutheran Christian, while I am not only a Lutheran Christian (with some serious reservations); but also a Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian, a Jew, a
Buddhist, a Sufi, a Hindu, a Bahai, etc. (also with reservations) person of
faith.
I too would like to think that the
Buddhist will be saved by
faith apart from Jesus Christ and that the darker picture found in Romans might be overdrawn.
While there are many christians of many denominations in this country, there are also muslims, jews,
buddhists, hindus, wiccans, pagans, agnostic, atheists and followers of many other
faiths.
Consequently today we shall also have to inquire into Hindu,
Buddhist and Islamic reasons for
faith in Jesus» (Church in the Power of the Spirit, p. 162).
On the other hand, Watanabe, devout Christian that he is, has received a host of
Buddhist feelings as his birthright by virtue of his Japanese heritage — just as a feeling for Christian values is an Americans birthright whether one chooses to accept the Christian
faith or not.
For all of the religous illiteracy among the
faith community, I do wish the atheists (and as a
Buddhist I am, technically, an atheist) would lay off the «all believers are idiots» rant.
If
faith in the grace manifest in Jesus Christ had the same form and the same effect as
faith in the compassion manifest in Gautama or the mythical vow of Dharmakara, would this be shinjin, and would it be
Buddhist?
It may well be said that the [acceptance of man] in - spite - of [his sin] character of the Christian
faith, by means of prophetic criticism and the «will to transform» based upon divine justice, functions as a militant element in the realm of human society and history, whereas the just - because - of [human sin and selfishness acceptance] nature of
Buddhist realization,... functions as a stabilizing element running beneath all social and historical levels.
Those who died in the attacks were of many
faiths including Christian, Jews, Muslims,
Buddhist and yes even some Atheist.
I also have to comment on this argument «Those who died in the attacks were of many
faiths including Christian, Jews, Muslims,
Buddhist and yes even some Atheist.
And if we integrate holidays for the Muslim
faith should we not do the same for Jewish,
Buddhist, Shinto, Hindu, Daoist, Ba «hai and and any other world religion?
well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the
buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind
faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?
I don't expect the people of the Jewish
faith to request it, the people of Hinduism to request it, and I certainly don't expect that any of my fellow
Buddhist to make this request.
There is a good summary of what leading
Buddhist figures such as the present Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hahn see as the place of Christian
faith and presence in the world.
The three jewels, right
faith, right knowledge, and right conduct, afford the clue to the attainment of moksha, or salvation, which to the Jain, as to the
Buddhist, meant release from the wheel of birth, on which one is held by the law of Karma.
The
Buddhist might say: «Please name one
faith where the primary goals are the elimination of ignorance and desire, seeking only enlightenment.»
«In the world in which we now live, with fears about «The Other» - whether that be Sunni, Shia, Jew, Christian, Yazidi, Hindu or
Buddhist - stoked and spread through social media, and amplified by those who would seek to suppress understanding, rather than promote it, there is an urgent need for calm reflection and a genuinely sustained, empathetic and open dialogue across boundaries of
faith, ethnicity and culture.»
Gerrish rather awkwardly (as he admits) lumps Muslim,
Buddhist and nonreligious
faith into the category of «secular
faith.»
He is the author of The Modern
Buddhist - Christian Dialogue (Edwin Mellon, 1988), The Dharma of
Faith (University Press of America, 1975), and editor, with Frederick J. Streng, of
Buddhist - Christian Dialogue: Essays in Mutual Transformation (University of Hawaii Press, 1985).
That system is the province of
faith, whether that
faith be Christian,
Buddhist, Muslim, etc...
I do wonder how far an «alternate -
faith» business can go, if they are overtly public about being, say,
Buddhist or Pagan.
Faith for Buddhist, or this Buddhist anyway, is faith that a lifetime of sitting will free me from the afflictions of greed, hate and delu
Faith for
Buddhist, or this
Buddhist anyway, is
faith that a lifetime of sitting will free me from the afflictions of greed, hate and delu
faith that a lifetime of sitting will free me from the afflictions of greed, hate and delusion.
What modern scientists and His Holiness the Dalai lama converse about has got nothing to do with
Buddhist Religion and
faith.
Carter spoke of his Baptist
faith, and the South Korean president, nominally a
Buddhist, listened with interest.
The recently established Dalit Solidarity Programme has brought together Hindu,
Buddhist, Christian, Muslim and Sikh people.36 Their centers of
faith are not obliterated.