supernatural horror. We gave our trailer a unique element by making our protagonist a Buddhist. This is where the name Yangshen comes from which means ‘sacred one’. Then we thought about having a monk in our teaser trailer in order to show it to our audience that the protagonist really is a Buddhist. In order for us to develop more on this idea of ours‚ we filmed a several scenes with the Buddhist protagonist and the Buddhist monk. Then we asked everyone’s opinion on our cinematography‚ mise-en-scene‚ sound
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crucial aspect of Buddhism that is celebrated widely by many different countries including Thailand‚ China‚ Sri Lanka and Indonesia. The ritual Parinirvana celebrates Buddha’s birth‚ enlightenment and death for both individuals and the greater Buddhist community. Buddha is celebrated in a variety of different ways from one country to another but has around 376 million adherents with identical significance of celebrating Buddha’s universal peace message and guideline to mankind which is the belief
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laymen but instead‚ Buddhist monks and practitioners. This explains the construction features throughout the entirety of the church. By adapting to a Buddhist construction style‚ it allows the Buddhist or Taoist monks to feel perfectly at home. According to the tour guides and the descriptive video played during the beginning of the tour‚ Reichelt believed that the Buddhist monks‚ having already been devoted to religion‚ are perfect for conversion. He greatly admired the monks’ dedication to their
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today is thought to have originated around 500 A.D.‚ when an Indian Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma arrived in China. Legend has it that he taught Indian fighting exercises to the Chinese monks in order to improve their physical condition. All kung-fu is thought to have evolved from this beginning‚ and from kung-fu came karate. The Bodhidharma legend has been examined in detail by Michael Spiesbach (“Bodhidharma: meditating monk‚ martial arts master or make-believe?” Journal of Asian Martial Arts
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up attended a service at a Baptist Church called New Birth Baptist Church located in North Miami‚ but when I sat down to write the paper I had nothing interesting to write about. I started researching different religions and finally came across a Buddhist temple called Wat Buddharangsi. Before visiting the Wat‚ I found a contact number on their website which I called to find out more information. A woman answered the phone and there was an extreme language barrier between the two of us. I wasn’t
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focused on philosophy. Scriptures were translated from Pali and Sanskrit into Chinese . Even the most elite Chinese societies accepted Buddhist monks. Taoist may have influenced the popularization of Mahayana over Theravada Buddhism. In the north Buddhist monks were highly looked upon as advisors. The tolerant structure of the north supported translation of Buddhist texts from Sanskrit to Chinese as well. Eventually Buddhism’s influence became a large influence on Neo- Confucian schools in both the
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Quote: “What mattered for the early Buddhists was obviously the individual’s progress on the path toward enlightenment‚ and not the individual’s gender” (p. 86) “...early nuns were full members...recognized for their extraordinary intellectual and spiritual talents…” (p. 86) Question: Reading Leona Anderson and Pamela Young’s book Women and Religious Traditions “Women in Buddhist Traditions” I was intrigued‚ and later upset‚ to learn that early Buddhist nuns were not stereotyped as a result of
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positively looked upon‚ for the most part‚ by the people of China. The spreading of Buddhism was not a short event. In fact‚ Buddhist influence was brought to China by the first century C.E and continued to expand for several centuries. The Chinese had different reactions to this‚ some positive‚ some negative. The basic belief of Buddhism is that if you serve Buddha‚ and obey Buddhist “laws”‚ you will be enlightened (doc 2). As a result of a Chinese scholar saying this‚ many more people would want to
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Philosophy in AsiaZen Buddhist Perspectives on Modern EducationMasato Mitsuda California Institute of Integral Studies mitsudam@usfca.eduABSTRACT: Many articles and books on Buddhism have been published in recent years‚ but publications dealing with Buddhist educational views are rarely available. In this paper‚ I wish to expound on Zen Buddhist perspectives on modern education. The history of Buddhist education is long and complex. In early centuries (400 BCE- 800 CE)‚ Buddhist monasteries in India
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adherence to Buddhist tradition and the continuation of its particular cultural heritage. For the purpose of this essay‚ tradition is defined as a long established or inherited way of thinking or acting‚ and cultural heritage is defined as is an expression of the ways of living developed by a community and passed on from generation to generation. In this essay I will focus on the role of Buddhism in Thailand‚ and how the absence of pure Buddhism has led to a compromise of both Buddhist and traditional
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