| National Flag of BRUNEI | | | Economy - overview: | | Brunei has a small well-to-do economy that encompasses a mixture of foreign and domestic entrepreneurship‚ government regulation‚ welfare measures‚ and village tradition. Crude oil and natural gas production account for just over half of GDP and more than 90% of exports. Per capita GDP is among the highest in Asia‚ and substantial income from overseas investment supplements income from domestic production. The government provides
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Dhammadassi thero It is with a deep sense of gratitude and honour that I send this message of felicitation and best wishes to the Most Venerable Witarandeniye Kassapa Thera‚ the Chief Incumbent of the Birmingham Buddhist Viharaya and the Director of the International Buddhist Relief Fund (IBRO)‚ United Kingdom. At this momentous occasion‚ my memories revert to the 1990s‚ at which I was destined to read for my Ph.D at the University of Lancaster‚ England. One of the most cherished opportunities
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factors contributing to how they view health and illness. The Huichol Indians live in the Sierra Madre Mountains of central Mexico. Every year they go on their pilgrimages led by their guide‚ a shaman named Pancho. They believe if they don’t go on their pilgrimages‚ the world will end and that is their responsibility. Part of this pilgrimage is living in the past. If they are living in the future‚ time will stop. This is how their space and time is viewed. They said that Gods don’t worry about
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who achieve Nirvana are freed from temptation‚ misfortune‚ and secular egotism. Buddhists who obtain Nirvana also no longer die or undergo reincarnation‚ and they are liberated from karma. Buddhists devoting their lives to completing the final stage of Nirvana can be viewed as analogous to Christians devoting themselves to live as in image of Christ in pursuit of redemption in Heaven. Nirvana is the end-goal of Buddhists‚ and most all other practices are centered around the pursuit of Nirvana. b. Four
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Buddhaghosa of the Theravada variant and Dogen of the Zen buddhists address the attainment of enlightenment through living the Buddhist teachings and meditation. Similarly‚ the XIVth Dalai Lama of Tibetan Buddhism(Mahayana)‚ stressed ‘peace in the soul’ for the path to Nirvana that is attained by harmony between others and inner peace by the practice of Buddhist teachings such as the eightfold
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that the appearance of being revolutionary is a charade. “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer tells the story of a group of characters who go on a pilgrimage during the Middle Ages. Pilgrimages lead to either a shrine or a holy place‚ and in this story‚ the pilgrimage leads to Canterbury. In the tale‚ one of the characters on the pilgrimage‚ the Wife of Bath‚ has sparked a debate among people about whether Chaucer addresses modern ideas about women or if he enforces gender stereotypes. However
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human condition." ("Buddhism‚" 2013). His goal would become the principle of the Buddhist religion finding the way to total liberation from suffering. Often described as a nontheistic religion‚ the Buddhists to do not pray to or believe in a God as a creator. The goal of the Buddhists‚ known as Nirvana‚ is to attain enlightenment and to be released from the cycle or rebirth and death. The foundations for the Buddhists teachings‚ the Four Noble Truths were prescribed at the very first sermon: 1.
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cultures‚ the Buddhist practices and religious beliefs were adapted to fit the local culture‚ without compromising the fundamental teachings involving compassion‚ wisdom‚ et cetera. Buddhism was widely spread throughout Asia‚ but was remained practically foreign in the West till modern times. About twenty decades ago‚ there were no Buddhists in the West‚ thus Buddhism remained rather foreign in most Western countries‚ and people had little understanding of it.
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Buddhism separates itself from the Jain tradition by teaching an alternative to "extreme asceticism". Buddhist scriptures record that during Prince Siddhartha’s ascetic life (before the great enlightenment) he undertook many fasts‚ penances and austerities‚ the descriptions of which are elsewhere found only in the Jain tradition (for example‚ the penance by five fires‚ plucking of hair‚ and the consumption of food using only one’s cupped hands). Ultimately‚ the Buddha abandoned reliance upon these
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religion and he made sure to follow the pillars of Islam. In the secondary written by Howard University in The Gold Road‚ “Made a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in 1495 with an entourage of more than 800 notables with 1‚500 soldiers‚ including men on horseback and camels” Mohammed was also very devoted to his religion and following the five pillars of Islam. He made the pilgrimage from Mecca to Medina and brought a lot of nobles‚ soldiers‚ and civilians of the Songhai Empire. In addition to his very impressive
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