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    Buddhism is a spiritual tradition that focuses on personal spiritual development and the attainment of a deep insight into the true nature of life. There are 376 million followers worldwide. Buddhists seek to reach a state of nirvana‚ following the path of the Buddha‚ Siddhartha Gautama‚ who went on a quest for Enlightenment around the sixth century BC. There is no belief in a personal god. Buddhists believe that nothing is fixed or permanent and that change is always possible. The path to

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    Ambedkar and Buddhism

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    AMBEDKAR’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE REVIVAL OF BUDDHISM Dr. Ruchi Singh‚ ruchianoop@yahoo.co.in Bhimrao Ramjee Ambedkar (14th April 1891 to December 7‚ 1956)‚ was a great jurist‚ lawyer‚ and political leader of modern India. Dr. B.R.Ambedkar was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee‚ that was constituted by the constituent Assembly to draft the constitution of Independent India. He was the first Law Minister of India. Ambedkar was born in the Mahar

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    spread of Buddhism from India into central Asia and China. Buddhism completely transformed the Chinese Empire and Buddhist cave monasteries formed along the route into China. The Vedic religion known as Brahmanism attempted to explain all theological problems and to help to unify the people of South Asia although it was not the universal faith. The Gupta dynasty wrote down the Brahmanism tales and stories in Sanskrit. Two types of Buddhism emerged in Asia. There was Mahayana Buddhism (Greater Vehicle)

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    The Rise of Buddhism

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    From its development in sixth century B.C.E‚ Buddhism has spread across the world and influenced many different cultures through its ideas of reality and enlightenment while also having a profound impact on the human condition and on a new way of thinking as a religious philosophy. Buddhism emerged in India as a religious philosophy to gain understanding of the human condition through meditation and personal reflection. Buddhism’s ancient teachings‚ as described by Dr. Jay Stevenson‚ were developed

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    Final HIS 111 Rise of Buddhism: The originator of Buddhism was Siddhartha Gautama. He started out as a prince of the Sakya Republic in the Himalayan foothills. At age 29 he left his life of privileged and began to learn under different paths of Vedic schools. In his journey he experienced a great deal of human suffering and he began to teach Buddhism. Buddhism had a great influence on the inhabitants of India during 260 BCE‚ when Ashoka converted to Buddhism. The end goal was for the top of the

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    Unique Earth

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    EARTH As far as science knows the planet earth is unique in the entire universe. Certainly this is true in our own solar system. Earth is far better suited for life than any other planet‚ yet even here most of the environments are too hot‚ too cold‚ too far underground or too far above ground to support much life. In the many thousands of miles of changing environments from the center of the earth to the edge of its atmosphere‚ there are only a few meters of habitable environment for most life forms

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    Unique Me

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    UNIQUE ME I have observed tons of kids nowadays forming groups and clubs and that sort of thing very often‚ but what discerns me is that the numbers of people in these groups are HUGE!!! Not that it is a bad thing or anything‚ but are all these people truly friends? Or are some who are just tag- along’s? Did people actually start acting friendlier towards each other??? Not likely! Something like that does not just happen overnight‚ and the advancement in this century is not helping it either.

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    Is The Holocaust Unique

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    Is the Holocaust unique? Answer by focusing on events in Cambodia‚ Rwanda‚ and Bosnia? The uniqueness of the Holocaust has always been controversial. Was it a singular event where latter atrocities could not match in ideology‚ degree‚ or characteristics or was it a predecessor for where similar events could be used as a depiction of the Holocaust simply in another place and time? Firstly‚ the Holocaust‚ commonly referred to as the Nazi slaughter of Jews‚ Gypsies and other ‘racial undesirables

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    Buddhism Apologetics

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    Buddhism Simply put‚ Buddhism is mans attempt to escape pain and suffering through self-perfection and meditation. The goal is to eliminate desires in an attempt to stop the endless cycle of reincarnation and karma by attaining enlightenment and thus extinguishing self‚ desire‚ and pain; while at the same time becoming one with the universe. Buddhism is appealing because of its mystical aspects; it is also appealing to those who desire to escape from material reality. One works to attain

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    Unique Aspects

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    I have many unique aspects that make me the human being I am today. The objects that surround me has profoundly affected my personality and my other qualities. The things that live around me make up the rest of the universe create the environment I live in. One of my preferred aspects must be my high self-esteem. This quality is essential for any person. It can lead you to do positive things and progressive. Gaining my self-esteem was not complex since it just came with my character which I

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