males to want to dominate. At the Nan Tien Temple‚ we did not see many monks around because they were elsewhere‚ doing more important things‚ the nuns were left to teach the school children and tourists. After visiting the Nan Tien Temple‚ and seeing the somewhat uptight nuns there‚ I suspect that this is also a change within the belief system. Buddha had taught tolerance and encouraged Buddhists to help and teach other people‚ though the Nan Tien Temple did not quite display this belief. I feel
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Kong residents are either agnostic or indifferent towards religion. Buddhism and Taoism are the major religious with more than 1 million Buddhists and about 1 million Taoists. The second large religious group is Christianity‚ it has been in Hong Kong since 1841. There are about 843‚000 Christians in Hong Kong‚ most of them are Protestant or Roman Catholic. Temples and churches are omnipresent and ubiquitous on the streets‚ few of them have been there for more than 700 years ago. Although Hong Kong
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New York. The third location is a Chinese Buddhist Temple. There is an abundant amount of Buddhist Temples all across the five boroughs of New York City. A visit to a Chinese Buddhist Temple will expose the visitor to the essentials of Chinese religion. Buddhism spread into China during the Han Dynasty in year 1 A.D. and this lead to the development of Buddhist Temples in China. The Mahayana Buddhist Temple The best place to find Chinese Buddhist Temples in New
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Buddhism agrees when it states that “There is no discrimination between right and wrong‚ but people make a distinction for their own convenience”. The Buddhist Precepts are sometimes compared to the Ten Commandments of the Abrahamic religions such as Christianity. However‚ the Precepts are not commandments‚ but principles‚ and it is up to Buddhists to determine how to apply these principles in their lives. Buddhism is greatly attractive because it sets humans free to take charge of their lives without
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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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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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