Chapter 7 India Monday‚ October 15‚ 2012 12:21 PM Indian Subcontinent • 3 topographical zones: - Northern mountainous zone - Indus and Ganges basins - Peninsula Vindhya Mountains and Deccan plateau divide peninsula from other two zones 4 sub regions in Peninsula: - Tropical Kerala in west - Coromandel Coast in east - Flat area of Tamil Nadu in south - Island of Sri Lanka Weather‚ Crops‚ and Geography • Peninsular India and Ganges Valley have a subtropical climate and
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1. What is Jerry Bentley’s thesis? Large scale conversion only took place when powerful political‚ social or economic incentives encouraged it and even then it led universally to syncretism rather than outright adoption of a foreign cultural tradition. 2. According to Bentley’s book‚ what does the term conversion mean? Conversion is an extremely complicated process involving the involving the communication of beliefs and negotiation of values across cultural boundary lines‚ but a process that
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fundamentalist Protestant ministers joined the outcry. The National Right to Life Committee formed with the explicit goal of reversing Roe v. Wade. Religious traditions throughout the world have very different views on unborn children. In Japan‚ the Bodhisattva Jizo is the guardian of unborn children and expectant mothers. Legend has it that when babies die‚ they are sent to the underworld for causing their parent ’s great suffering. Jizo rescues the children from that
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Buddhism had an important role in the development of Japanese art between the sixth and the sixteenth centuries. Buddhist art and religion came to Japan from China‚ with the arrival of a bronze Buddhist sculpture alongside the sutras. Buddhist art was encouraged by Crown Prince Taishi in the Suiko period in the sixth century and Emperor Shomu in the Nara period in the eighth century. In the early Heian period Buddhist art and architecture greatly influenced the traditional Shinto arts‚ and Buddhist
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Abortion in Japanese Buddhism: The Mizuko Kuyō Abortion has been throughout history a contentious topic of discussion‚ and across diverse cultures and religions the subject of abortion is highly debated. In Japanese society‚ where abortion is freely permitted‚ an entire contemporary philosophy called mizuko kuyō has arisen to cope with the increasing popularity of abortion as a form of birth control. While the act of abortion clashes with basic Buddhist principles‚ Japanese Buddhism utilizes
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northeastern Tibet in July 6‚ 1935 to a peasant family. Dalai Lama’s holiness was recognized at the age of two‚ in accordance with Tibetan tradition‚ as the reincarnation of his predecessor the 13th Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lamas are the manifestation of the Bodhisattva of compassion‚ who chose to reincarnate to serve the people. Dalai Lama means ocean of wisdom. When he was asked for view himself‚ he said that: "I always consider myself as a simple Buddhist monk. I feel that is real me. I feel that Dalai Lama
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When asked to write a report on an individual that influenced world history up until 1500‚ I knew exactly who to choose‚ the Buddha. The Buddha contributed to history in many different ways. Not only did he create what is now the fourth largest religion in the world‚ but he also helped to spread peace throughout the world. Without the Buddha’s influence and the influence of Buddhism‚ many empires may not have developed the way that they did and many other religions may not have developed at all.
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Siddhartha‚ a young man from the Brahmin caste‚ goes through many stages during his quest to pursue deeper understanding and it is what he learns at each stage that brings him closer to wisdom whilst shedding previous aspects of himself. Siddhartha takes place in ancient India where all life is shaped by the scenery and culture of that time and the hero being influenced by such leaves his home to find spiritual enlightenment. The sole purpose of his journey is to find the wisest way to live and to
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KOREAN MUSIC Traditional Korean music includes both the folk‚ vocal‚ religious and ritual music styles of the Korean people. Korean music‚ along with arts‚ painting‚ and sculpture has been practiced since prehistoric times. Two distinct musical cultures exist in Korea today: traditional music (Gugak) and Western music (yangak). Korean Folk music Korean folk music is varied and complex‚ but all forms maintain a set of rhythms (called Jangdan) and a loosely defined set of melodic modes. Because
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During the spread of Buddhism in china‚ three popular views were that the spreading of Buddhism should be stopped‚ society benefited from it‚ and it was the way of salvation (afterlife). One of the responses to the spread of Buddhism was that it should be stopped. Many officials believed that Buddhism was harmful to china because Buddhism was discordant with the already established Chinese traditions‚ culture‚ and aristocracy. The leading scholar and official at the Tang imperial court‚ Han Yu‚
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