Sentences with phrase «buddhist religion»

This makes it an excellent place to learn about the Buddhist religion by speaking to monks, watching them perform ceremonies and, of course, admiring the traditional architecture which makes each temple unique.

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Tibetan Buddism can be classified into three sub categories namely Buddhist religion (Buddhism), Buddhist Philosophy and Buddhist Science.

The Koran is the Scripture for Islam, and the Buddhist religion accords the Gitas high standing.

a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects: the Christian religion; the Buddhist religion.

This book was among those that Kottke and Jobs read while exploring Buddhist religion and philosophy.

The presentation focuses particularly on the diffusion of the Hindu and Buddhist religions from India.

To add to the cultural mix, the Chinese temple in Melaka Old Town plays host to the Confucianist, Taoist and Buddhist religions.

Not exact matches

Even religion now has been transformed: Pastors, priests, rabbis, imams, gurus and Buddhist monks reach their audiences through weblogs.

For instance, while Star Wars has very evident religious Buddhist and Taoist overtones, Star Trek shows religion from a cold perspective (e.g., science is supreme and only cultures and worlds without an in - depth knowledge of science need religion).

No one is saying that the other religions / philosopies are not as bad, although I have never heard of a politician who follows Buddhist tradition trying to stop legalization of abortions, or an adherent of Jainism trying to stop same sex marriage.

It doesn't matter if it's Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, or any other religion.

And just so anyone doesn't have to wonder, I am neither a Muslim, Christian, Jew, Catholic, Agnostic, Buddhist, Jainist, Mormon, Wiccan, Episcopalian, Raelian, Scientologist, Atheist, Anti-Theist, or practioner of any religion or organized non-religion of any kind.

Have you ever heard a buddhist claim that his is a peaceful religion?

I am a Born Again Christian who believes in freedom of religion because I trust a Muslim, Buddhist, or Hindu ruler more than I trust an Atheist who have no moral compass.

The problem with athiesm which the buddhist scholar Alan Watts pointed out is that it all to often devolves into dogmatism like religion.

I'm personally a Buddhist, so I do not worship a god but I do appreciate the benefits of religion.

The archbishop criticised the state for not fulfilling its constitutional obligation to ensure «equal status and equal right in the practice of the Hindu, Buddhist, Christian and other religions».

Regarding you post calling me a liar here is the direct quote from your own source as cited: «No president thus far has been an atheist, a Jew, a Buddhist, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh or an adherent of any specifically non-Christian religion.»

They need a religion that helps them respect differences (like the Hindu philosophy that we all find a path to the truth, independent of what god we worship), or the Buddhist philosophy of improving ourselves and working with our community (independent of gods and dogma), or the native religions that respect nature and it's boundaries.

If your deity is into being decent to others, then maybe he's really a Buddhist, a religion that believes in decency instead of fear.

Buddhist morality is VASTLY superior to Western religions like Christianity and Islam.

And just how a Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or member of any other religion would fare is another question.

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»

When we come to that end (which to a Buddhist I guess is enlightenment, but to most Christians is death or heaven), theology and religion will be meaningless.

What about good people of Buddhist, Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, and other non Christian religions?

If you claim that hindu's or muslims or buddhist's are not serving the right God and therefore will spend an eternity being tortured just based on the fact they were born into a certain culture and taught a different religion by their peers, I don't think that would qualify as a «choice».

Christian interest in Buddhism and the attempt to appropriate its insights is far more widespread than Buddhist interest in Christianity Still, the situation is not a simple one in Japan, he said, Much of the vitality of religious life and practice in Japan is in the so - called new religions, some of which draw on Buddhism more than others.

[In thousands (175,440 represents 175,440,000)--------- Total Christian --------- 173,402 Catholic --------- 57,199 Baptist --------- 36,148 Protestant - no denomination supplied --------- 5,187 Methodist / Wesleyan --------- 11,366 Lutheran --------- 8,674 Christian - no denomination supplied --------- 16,834 Presbyterian --------- 4,723 Pentecostal / Charismatic --------- 5,416 Episcopalian / Anglican --------- 2,405 Mormon / Latter - Day Saints --------- 3,158 Churches of Christ --------- 1,921 Jehovah's Witness --------- 1,914 Seventh - Day Adventist --------- 938 Assemblies of God --------- 810 Holiness / Holy --------- 352 Congregational / United Church of Christ --------- 736 Church of the Nazarene --------- 358 Church of God --------- 663 Orthodox (Eastern)--------- 824 Evangelical / Born Again \ 2 --------- 2,154 Mennonite --------- 438 Christian Science --------- 339 Church of the Brethren --------- 231 Nondenominational \ 2 --------- 8,032 Disciples of Christ --------- 263 Reformed / Dutch Reform --------- 206 Apostolic / New Apostolic --------- 970 Quaker --------- 130 Full Gospel --------- 67 Christian Reform --------- 381 Foursquare Gospel --------- 116 Fundamentalist \ 2 --------- 69 Salvation Army --------- 70 Independent Christian Church --------- 86 --------- Total other religions --------- 8,796 Jewish --------- 2,680 Muslim --------- 1,349 Buddhist --------- 1,189 Unitarian / Universalist --------- 586 Hindu --------- 582 Native American --------- 186 Scientologist --------- 25 Baha'I --------- 49 Taoist --------- 56 New Age --------- 15 Eckankar --------- 30 Rastafarian --------- 56 Sikh --------- 78 Wiccan --------- 342 Deity --------- 32 Druid --------- 29 Santeria --------- 3 Pagan --------- 340 Spiritualist --------- 426 Other unclassified --------- 735 --------- No religion specified, total --------- 34,169 Atheist --------- 1,621 Agnostic --------- 1,985 Humanist --------- 90 Secular --------- 34 Ethical Culture --------- 11 No religion --------- 30,427 --------- Refused to reply to question --------- 11,815

Though the religion of northern China was basically Buddhism, the first emperor of T'ang dynasty, Kao - tsu, the father of Tai - tsung turned anti Buddhist accepting the usual Confucian argument that Buddhism was alien and unChinese.

If being a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist (not naming a lot sorry), truly (and I mean TRULY) makes you want to make this world a better place by not judging people, then you chose the right religion.

Why don't we celebrate Buddhist holidays, Hindu holidays, Snake Handler and any other religion you can imagine holidays?

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?

If you ask for mulim holidays to be observed, what's stopping hindus, buddhists, jews, siks, and people of other indigenous religions from asking for the same?

Based on your comments above regarding the Buddhists monks, it is clear / obvious that if I didn't experience adverse effects when engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation but instead experienced oneness and tranquility just like the Buddhist monks then for sure, you wouldn't accuse me of being an unorthodox enthusiast engaging in self - manufactured religion.

Mr. Latif, Do the schools in New York close for other religions» holidays (Jewish, Buddhist, etc)?

So muslims can't go out publicly drinking without penalty, but christians and jews and hindus and buddhists and everyone else can - because the «barbaric» muslim country decided that religious laws should only apply to those who follow that religion.

I've also interviewed Christian ministers, a rabbi, a imam and a Buddhist scholar about the significance of their spiritual homes, pressing them to explain how they reconcile their sometimes opulent houses of worship with the fact that religion is ultimately about transcending worldly things.

There are those who consider themselves Christian, Buddhist, etc in a religious sense who have never read sacred texts associated with their religion.

When a contemporary Jesuit from Boston teaches a Buddhist mindfulness technique to his flock or an ecumenically minded Tibetan lama expropriates a Christian prayer, we have something analogous to John Ruskin's rhapsodies about the Elgin marbles, or Henry Steele Olcott's attempts to tell Sinhalese Buddhists what their religion was really all about.

In today's America, the word must be stretched to include not only Protestants, Catholics and Jews, but significant numbers of Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and other citizens representing various world religions.

«It is hard to imagine,» Greeley writes, «Jewish or Islamic or Platonist or Hindu or Buddhist or Parsi missionaries (should there have been any in these world religions) taking such liberties with their heritage.»

Apophatic or silent religion, exemplified by the Buddhist renunciation of clinging, and also by the hesychast strains of other religious traditions, is significant for its patient letting be of the world.

Not only a poor historian, snore... you have no understanding of religion... Christianity or yours (though I doubt you actually are a buddhist).

illusive There are atheistic religions, like Buddhism, but not all atheists are buddhists by a long shot, and few American nonbelievers you'd meet on such a board as this would believe in something like reincarnation.

China for instance is in a massive campaign to rebuild Buddhist temples earlier destroyed by former regimes and Buddhism is very favored while other religions are still banned.

Without stopping to argue whether or not Confucianism or Taoism are religions, or even offering a definition of religion, it can be urged that an understanding of the history of China requires a good background in Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist thought.

Granted, I'm not a Buddhist, but even with my relatively minor knowledge of the religion that seems decidedly... anti-Buddhist.

Please, before you go off about someone else's religion (Catholic, Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, or other wise), please make sure you have solid understanding about what you're talking about.

Right, I don't think you can call Buddhism a religion, but there are many buddhist that pray to buddha and believe in mystical tales, which really isn't what Buddhism is about, at least to me.