Name: Kenia Ramirez Professor: Rayka Rush Assignment: Buddhism Class: PHIL 2200 Date: April 30‚ 2014 I chose to talk about assignment 2. The question to discuss in this essay is very contradictory because one of the beliefs of Buddhism is the reincarnation‚ but what confuses me is that they do not believe in soul. Buddhism as Jains and Hindus believe in reincarnation but unlike those two religions‚ however Buddhism does not believe. The basic concept of these three religions
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AB Theology III October 2013 Comparative Religion and Cults The Concept of Salvation in Hinduism Essay The concept of salvation is present in almost all religions in its own distinct way. The primary purpose of all religions is to provide salvation to their followers and the existence of many different religions indicates that there is a great variety of opinion about what constitutes salvation and the means of achieving it. The term salvation can be meaningfully
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and significance. To define non-attachment is no facile task‚ for there exists numerous components of its practice. As a yogic practice‚ non-attachment applies over myriad manifestations of nature. However‚ to grasp the role non-attachment plays in yoga‚ one must examine its qualities and obstacles. Why must one practice non-attachment? Understanding these obstacles to Viaragya is crucial to affirm the existence of a spiritual reality underlying the phenomenal world and to discover the inner Atman
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Swami Vivekananda was the greatest gift of God to the Indian society. According to Dr.S.Radhakrishnan‚ "Swami Vivekananda was a saintly personality who was not content merely with reaching and practicing the highest ideals of Hindu religion and philosophy. His motto was worship of God through the service of the poor and lowly and he called upon his countrymen and women to shake off the age old lethargy‚ remove the abuses which had crept into their society and work for the freedom of their motherland
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is perhaps the most famous‚ and definitely the most widely-read‚ ethical text of ancient India. As an episode in India’s great epic‚ the Mahabharata‚ The Bhagavad Gita now ranks as one of the three principal texts that define and capture the essence of Hinduism; the other two being the Upanishads and the Brahma Sutras. Though this work contains much theology‚ its kernel is ethical and its teaching is set in the context of an ethical problem. The teaching of The Bhagavad Gita is summed up in the maxim
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CONTEMPORARY INDIAN THINKERS CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSA 2. VIVEKANANDA 3. SHAIKH MUHAMMED IQBAL 4. RABINDRANATH TAGORE 5. MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI 6. KRISHNACHANDRA BHATTACHARYYA 7. AUROBINDO GHOSE 8. SARAPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN 9. JIDDU KRISHNAMURTHI 10. RAJNEESH CONCLUSION INTRODUCTION When we speak about Contemporary Indian Philosophy‚ we refer to the pro and post Independence period which is known as the Indian
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Over the course of the semester we have studied four religions: Judaism‚ Islam‚ Hinduism‚ and Buddhism. I learned a lot about each religion and have more knowledge to the different religions. Overall‚ I found Hinduism the most interesting out of the four we studied. Many people do not know a lot about Hinduism; however India has the largest population in the world of Hindu’s. The reasons I find Hinduism interesting compared to the other religions is because it is so different than my religion
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Ambedkar and Gandhi on the Bhagwat Gita The Bhagwat Gita is regarded as the most sacred religious book in Hinduism. It is also considered to be a book of ethics‚ championing eternal moral values. It has been translated into various languages. Great thinkers and political leaders‚ both in medieval and modern period‚ have been inspired by this book and have also written commentaries upon it. The objective of this paper is to compare the contrasting views of Gandhi and Ambedkar on the Bhagwat Gita
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practice one finally attains sanctity and liberation (moksha or mukti). Broadly speaking‚ the celibate holy life (brahmacarya) which leads to liberation is a path of self-purification by which the effects of negative karmas are avoided. The Hindu Yoga traditions hold various beliefs. Moksha may be achieved by love of Ishwar/God (see bhakti movement‚ see Mirabai)‚ by
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In this world of over seven billion souls‚ sometimes we feel the absence of one man and then suddenly we find that he is there in all men. That is our Indian famous monk Swami Vivekananda. He is regarded as the patriot saint of modern India. He was the greatest gift of God to the Indian society. His inspiring personality was well known both in India and America during nineteenth century. He was the India’s spiritual ambassador in America to create a bond between East and West. His original name
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