is mainly about how you should live life and use correct behavior. Does not believe in a formal God‚ but a force that existed before Heaven and Earth. Texts The Vedas- Rig Veda‚ Sama Veda‚ Yajur Veda‚ and the Atharva Veda The Tripitaka and the Sutras The Si Shu Wu Jing Daode Jing Zhaungzi Ritual and practice (sacred elements & their meaning) Images of gods and shrines. Puja-morning ritual Meditation Reading scriptures
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The operations of the gunas in the context of concentration and awareness can also be viewed from the point of citta bhumis‚ which actually can be spoken of as a personality theory based on the one parameter of capacity of concentration of the citta or mind. Based on its capacity for concentration‚ the citta is categorized into five types: mudha‚ kshipta‚ vikshipta‚ ekagra and niruddha. The Mudha citta is one in which tamas dominates totally. This mind therefore is absolutely lazy and lethargic and
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Self-power (jiriki) -In Chan Buddhism emphasized as necessary and sufficient for enlightenment. In Pure Land‚ insufficient without Amida. -In Zen‚ spiritual achievement attained solely by one’s own efforts. Self-power forms basis of both Rinzai and Soto schools of Buddhism. -Experiencing truth for oneself and not accepting testimony of another. -In Pure Land‚ one cannot become enlightened themselves through their own efforts because people have become so defiled so it is impossible. They must
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away to the Himalayas in his childhood in search of God cannot help but touch a chord in the reader’s heart. Yogananda also gives a good life sketch of his great guru Sri Yukteshwar who trained the former in Kriya Yoga and encouraged him to go to the West to spread the teachings to Yoga. Amelita Galli-Curci‚ one of the most famous opera singers of the early twentieth century‚ said about the book: "Amazing‚ true stories of saints and masters of India‚ blended with priceless superphysical information–much
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Cultural heritage of a people refers to the social and religious attitudes‚ beliefs‚ principles and conventions of behaviour inherited from the tradition stretching back to remote antiquity. It also includes in its connotations intellectual and artistic manifestations in the form of language‚ literature‚ visual and plastic art and music developed by the society from generation to generation. Viewed in this light‚ our cultural heritage is immensely vast and varied. India is the cradle of one of
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Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902) or Narendranath Datta was an Indian Hindu monk‚ a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introducing the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world and also in raising interfaith awareness‚ bringing Hinduism to the status of major world religion during the late 19th century. He worked for the revival of Hinduism in India‚ and also contributed to the concept of nationalism in India
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Effects of Eastern Religious Traditions on a Society DaVonna Jones‚ Esmeralda Rangel‚ Justin Eoff‚ Cliff Martin‚ Thomas Sawyer REL/133 World Religious Traditions I University of Phoenix February 25‚ 2010 Eastern Religious
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The Iconography of Nepalese Buddhism by Min Bahadur Shakya [Text Version] e DHANET ’ UD BO B O K LIB R A R E-mail: bdea@buddhanet.net Web site: www.buddhanet.net Buddha Dharma Education Association Inc. S Y e of Nepalese Buddhism M B S A A Min Bahadur Shakya is a scholar of Newar and Tibetan Buddhism. Among his major publications are hort istory of uddhism in epal‚ . ntroduction to uddhist onasteries of athmandu alley
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Introduction: Culture is the set of patterns of human activity within a society or social group and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. Customs‚ laws‚ popular styles‚ social standards‚ and traditions are all examples of cultural elements. The term culture refers to a state of intellectual development . The social and political forces that influence the growth of a human being are defined as culture. Culture is a total way of life shared by a people in a society.
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Jessica Pellegrini Lord Shiva and Saivism There are over 330 million different deities worshipped in Hinduism. Many of which are lost to people today and many who are still thriving to be the highest they can. The three supreme gods: Vishnu‚ Brahma‚ and Shiva are still the highest of all today. Lord Shiva is the third and final of the Trimurti‚ the three supreme gods. The first was Brahma and the second Vishnu. Lord Shiva has been among the religion for centuries dated all the way back as far
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