Death is with us‚ it follows us‚ and it obsesses us. It is our eternal companion and we cannot escape from it‚ not only because it will come to us sooner or later‚ but also because of all of the people we see dying every day. Obviously for most of us‚ death is not indifferent and we react and cope with it differently according to our beliefs and religions. Muslims and Christians think that after death‚ our souls go to heaven or hell. Hinduisms believe in reincarnation‚ for Buddhists death is nothing
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individual possesses uniqueness and the power to create his or her own destiny and each is responsible for his or her own action. Buddhists believe that rather than being created by a Supreme Being or god humans were actually born due to karma from past lives. Their karma is made by the karmic connection between their father and mother. Islam also teaches that the
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Colleen. p. 1) The Ramayana‚ Mahabharata‚ and another Hindu scripture called the Upanishads contain the core beliefs of Hinduism. (Messina‚ Colleen. p. 4) Hinduism is a peaceful religion. It stresses non-violence and believes in dharma‚ reincarnation‚ karma‚ and the belief in Brahman. The belief in Brahman is one central belief in Hinduism that believes that Brahman is the universal spirit behind everything and the force behind all of the Hindu deities. Every Hindu has a favorite deity‚ and temples to
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Buddhism answered the question of destiny through achieving the state of nirvana or liberation. Nirvana illustrated that there is no eternal soul and once achieved‚ the cycle of reincarnation is broken. Buddha believed in the concept of Karma and through good Karma and denial of desire one could enter into the state of nirvana (Weider & Gutierrez‚ 2013). Unlike Buddhism‚ Christianity believes that all individuals have a soul that have an internal
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Eight things that I found interesting in learning about Hinduism is their deities‚ Reincarnation‚ Samsara‚ their four goals‚ Philosophical Hinduism‚ Devotional Hinduism‚ their trinity‚ and Puja. The first thing I found interesting was the deities in Hinduism. They worship about 330 million gods through different paths (margas)‚ disciplines (yogas)‚ and philosophies (darshanas). While they worship so many gods‚ most Hindus pay homage to Ganesha‚ the god of good luck. Their other deities appear as
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Like any religion‚ Hindu has people who practice and interpret the religion in different ways. There are two main beliefs when talking about the divine reality of God in Hindu. The first is Monistic and dualistic. Monism is that reality is tied together. Dualistic is the opposite in that there is a distinction between God and reality and as a result God can be worshiped. The majority of people of follow Hinduism view God as dualistic. Monistic Hindus use the term Brahman to describe their supreme
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Primary Sources - Hinduism‚ Jainism‚ and Buddhism For more background information on religions see: http://home.comcast.net/~mruland/WHAP/Notes/foundations/wreligion.htm The Aryan invasion of the subcontinent around 1‚500 B.C.E. brought with it a new religion that featured a pantheon of gods that the Aryans worshiped through ritualism and with burnt sacrifices. Over the next thousand years‚ the religion matured‚ probably incorporating some elements of Harappan theology and certainly establishing
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life is to realize that we are part of God and by doing so we can leave this plane of existence and rejoin with God. This enlightenment can only be achieved by going through cycles of birth‚ life and death known as samsara. One’s progress towards enlightenment is measured by his karma. This is the accumulation of all one’s good and bad deeds and this determines the person’s next reincarnation. Selfless acts and thoughts as well as devotion to God help one to be reborn at a higher level. Bad acts
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similarities of Buddhism and Islam. Buddhism originated from India‚ and was founded by Prince Siddharta Gautama‚ who later came to be known as Buddha‚ or the enlightened one. Born of a princely caste‚ he later renounced his comfortable life in search for nirvana. In order to do that‚ he joined a band of ascetic‚ who was a group of Hindu priests. In his teaching‚ the Buddha taught his followers to follow "the middle way"‚ that is‚ not the way of extreme asceticism. He attained full understanding of the nature
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slowly over a long period of time.” (World History Patterns of Interaction‚ 2005) Hinduism has been made up of so many different cultures and beliefs that unlike Christianity and Islam it is unable to be traced back. Hindus believe in karma and reincarnation. Karma is good and bad things that a person does and they follow them through each reincarnation. Reincarnation is the rebirth of a soul or spirit which follows after death into a new body and begins another life. The three major Hindu gods were
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