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    WHY DOES PLATO COMPARE ORDINARY HUMAN EXISTENCE TO THAT OF CHAINED PRISONERS IN A CAVE? Plato in his famous Allegory of Cave compared the ordinary human existence to that of chained prisoners in a cave. According to Plato‚ we are all stuck in a false reality in this world like prisoners in a cave. His cave theory still applies today in the sense that the people are influenced and controlled by the world around them. They do not want to realize or seek the truth; instead they wish to live

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    Buddhism In Ancient China

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    1‚ Buddhism is a religion that emphasizes the birth and purification of the mind. With the development of medieval China‚ Buddhism played a vital role in everywhere‚ also was known as a pan-Asian religion. Buddhism should be based on Chinese traditional ideology as well as accepted by secular life‚ which is helpful for Buddhism to adopt social‚ political order and the cultural mainstream. Buddhism is very practical for the world to achieve the goal of peaceful development. In medieval China‚ a lot

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    systems. Christians‚ for instance‚ believe in Jesus Christ while Buddhists venerate Gautama. Even though the same religion‚ there are different branches. Christianity‚ for instance‚ has Catholics and Protestants; on the other hand‚ Buddhism separate to Mahayana and Theravada. Therefore‚ if the morality is formed base on religion‚ the definition of morality should vary since there are many different regions. However‚ morality that people use in an attempt to do the

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    Buddhism Buddhism Buddhism is based on the life‚ revelations and teachings of Siddhartha Gautama (560-480 BC). Siddhartha (Buddah) was born the prince of the Sakhya to King Suddhodana and his wife‚ Queen Mayadevi. Kumar N. (2004) “Scriptures assert that Buddha chose a king as his father since the royal caste was more respected that the priestly one”. Queen Mayadevi is believed to have been miraculously impregnated by a white elephant that touched her right side with its trunk in a dream. Royal

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    1. Hinduism 72 -113 2. Buddhism 128 – 155 Hinduism Hinduism has also been the source of three other religions. (Jainism‚ Buddhism‚ Sikhism) The word Hindu comes from the Sanskrit name for the river Indus‚ Sindhu. Hindu may refer to a great variety of religious beliefs and practices‚ it generally applies to the religion of the people of India. “Hindus‚” Indians who did not convert to Islam 7th to 15th century C.E‚ Hinduism flourished in much of Southeast Asia and still survives on the Indonesian Island

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    Burma

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    which continues to the present day in Myanmar‚ is a syncretalist mix of what might be termed ’pure’ Buddhism (of the Sri Lankan or Theravada school) with deep-rooted elements of the original animism or nat-worship and even strands of Hinduism and the Mahayana tradition of northern India.

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    Introduction Built by the Khmers between 802 and 1220 AD‚ the ancient temples of Angkor Wat exist as the remaining relics of a historically and religiously rich city. While many other historical and religious structures in Cambodia have disappeared due in part from being constructed out of vulnerable materials like wood‚ Angkor Wat still remains as a symbol of the divinity of its former kings‚ as well as for the palace itself. Likewise‚ Indonesia’s Borodubur temples exist as the single remaining

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    c.525 B.C. by Siddhartha Gautama‚ also known as Buddha. There are 300 million Buddhists world wide. This is one of the world great religions; it is divided into two main schools: the Theravada or Hinyana in Sri Lanka and South-East Asia‚ and the Mahayana in China‚ Mongolia‚ Korea‚ and Japan. The third school‚ is the Vajrayana‚ has a long tradition in Tibet and Japan. Buddhism has largely disappeared from its country of origin‚ India‚ except the many refugees from the Tibet region of China and small

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    during the mid-sixth century (Earhart 293). Before‚ Japan was already practicing its own religion called Shinto and the introduction of Buddhism had induced a serious religious conflict within Japan. One form of Buddhism that enthralled Japan was the Mahayana Buddhism‚ which demonstrated an easy way to achieve salvation for all people (Earhart 293). The new religion and its doctrine attracted both the Japanese people‚ especially the commoners‚ the court‚ and the state. The public easily accepted Buddhism

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    Case Study Of Ivansville

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    EXPLORING SINGAPORE Presented to Tammy Pate Professor Ivy Tech Community College Prepared by Jameson Hutchison Business Administration Student Ivy Tech Community College--Evansville April 14‚ 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………………1 MAP…………………………………………………………………………………………..1 RESEARCH………………………………………………………………………………….1 Documents Needed To Travel………….……………………………………………..2 Costs

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