Both are filled with great religious beliefs‚ fantastic architecture‚ and great literature/music. India’s country is filled with Hinduism‚ while China is influenced with Buddhism. One great Indian architecture structure is the Kandrariya Mahadeo temple‚ and one great Chinese architecture structure is the Nanchan Monastery. The way that chinese architecture is made is amazing. Some literature from India is the Mahabharata and the Ramayan‚ also their system of music is interesting. Chinese literature
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as the targeted audience of the mission were not 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
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and Buddhist cultures. The structures that these people built‚ were not made just for a place to worship. They represented many things to their builders‚ but mostly they represented the way to “heaven.” To the people of ancient Mesopotamia‚ their temple was the home of their god. The temples were built on top of large “stepped” brick structures called ziggurats. On the outside‚ they might have covered the lower “steps” with dirt and planted trees and bushes to give the illusion of a temple on top
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in Usa-shi‚ Ōita-ken. Its history dates back to approximately 708-714 (The Nara Period) when the shrine was founded in Kyushu. A temple called Miroku-ji was adjacent to it in 779‚ making it what is known to be the first shrine-temple combination (jingū-ji) ever. The resulting mixed building‚ called Usa Hachimangu-ji‚ lasted over a millennium until 1868‚ when the Buddhist part was seperated to agree with the Kami and Buddhas Separation Act. It is today from this shrine where 40‚000 branching shrines
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three main aspects: literature‚ art and ideology. Many famous poems have ideas from Buddhism and many Buddhist stone statues can be found‚ which show its huge influence. It also promotes the countries’ intercultural communications with foreign countries. In Tang Dynasty (618 - 907)‚ Jianzhen traveled to Japan to spread Buddhism as well as Chinese culture. Xuanzang‚ who traveled to India to learn Buddhist doctrines‚ he brought back with him plenty of information
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sites. The wall is believed to have once been a Jewish temple. The wall extends about 62 feet above the ground and is made of complete stone. The site of the wall is considered to be holy ground. Every year thousands of people travel to Jerusalem to mourn the temples destruction and to pray.This site is significant to the Jewish religion because it is believed to be the closest point to the Holy of Holies‚ the holiest room of the old temple. This old tradition of praying at the wall began around
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3.8 percent Hinduism by 0.5 percent and Animism by 0.2 percent before respectively in Myanmar. Myanmar is a predominantly Theravada Buddhist country. Buddhism reached Myanmar around the beginning of the Christian era‚ mingling with Hinduism (also imported from India) and indigenous animism in Myanmar. The Pyu and Mon kingdoms of the first millennium were Buddhist‚ but the early Burmese Myanmar peoples were animists. According to Myanmar religion Burma traditional history‚ Myanmar King Anawrahta
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if you had a girl‚ it brought bad luck to the family. Although‚ Women were invited to participate in the religion by Gautama Buddha‚ Ladies in the Buddhist religion couldn’t become monks. The Buddhist founders believed that women should have equal rights to men when it came to worshiping. But‚ they were uncertain that women could uphold the Buddhist communities strong patrons. Eventually‚ Buddhism came around and allowed women to participate and join as part of the monastic culture; only if they
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Eastern religious traditions play a role in everyday medicine. The question is what role does it play? Modern medicine is a lot different than what it was back in the day. It is clear that the facts of modern medicine agree marvelously with the Bible. For example‚ the Mosaic regulations pertaining to childbirth‚ sexual relationships‚ hand-washing‚ wound and discharge care‚ quarantining‚ burial precautions‚ and waste disposal are examples which indicate that diseases are communicable‚ and that
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Jomon: about 300 BC‚ when Japan was inhabited by a hunter-gatherer culture which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity. Yayoi: is an Iron Age era in the history of Japan traditionally dated 300 BC to AD 300. Techniques in metallurgy based on the use of bronze and iron were also introduced in this period. Kofun:is an era in the history of Japan from around 250 to 538. It follows the Yayoi period. The word kofun is Japanese for the type of burial mounds dating from
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