origin | India | India | East Asia mainly China | East Asia mainly China ( thought to have been the ways of the Yellow Emperor) | Historical figures and events | Changes occurred when Madhya‚ Chai Tanya‚ and Ramanuja founded the Bhakti Movement. Yoga practices were implemented into the Hindu religion which changed the religion. | Siddhartha was the figure that brought forth enlightenment in a new way. He was rich but left all that behind after the “Four Sights” were revealed to him. He set off
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mornings started with listening to the monk chanting for half an hour‚ and I just went into nothingness and got so relaxed. After a little while I began to practice chanting too both using OAM and chanting the heart sutra. I did not get good enough to get the full effect from the heart sutra but the OAM is one of my favourites. I learned to do the OAM the traditional way‚ where you do it in your own pace‚ and you deliberate start the sound in the lower belly and then move it up all the way to the head
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Jump to: navigation‚ search |Sree Rama Navami | |[pic] | |Ram (center)‚ with consort Sita‚ brother Lakshmana and devotee Hanuman | |Observed by |Hindus | |Type |Hindu | |Significance |Birth day of Ram; Marriage ceremony of Ram
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introduction Diversity refers to the differences between individuals. People differ on all kinds of aspects‚ both visible and non-visible. Examples of differences are gender‚ age‚ skills‚ tenure‚ learning styles etc. We find these differences in every workplace‚ though not all differences are always recognised or seen as relevant. Unity in diversity Unity in diversity is a concept of "unity without uniformity and diversity without fragmentation" that shifts focus from unity based on a mere tolerance
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Developing a Buddhist practice in taiko drumming The Odaiko Daimoku work brings the life of a votary of the Lotus Sutra to Japanese taiko drumming. The piece is set in taiko’s most dramatic‚ strenuous‚ thunderous format: the Odaiko Solo. The theme is Nam Myoho Renge Kyo‚ called Daimoku‚ which means ‘title’ [of the Lotus Sutra]. Perspective Nichiren Daishonin’s Buddhism‚ (my faith)‚ is the theoretical perspective in which Odaiko Daimoku is set. This requires no more faith of the critic than any
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a splendid life. When he was 29 he came to realize that high life up to this point had been so empty. He let go any earthly things and soon left to find peace and enlightenment trying to stay away from the cycles of rebirths. He started practicing Yoga and "adopted a life of radical asceticism." He soon gave up this way of thinking and focused on a middle path between the life of "indulgence and that of self-denial". After a while of great "inner struggle"‚ he began to wander to different places
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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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emotional (instinctual) or intellectual. It may range from simple liking or preference to intense desire and attraction. Sage Patanjali states as sukhaanushayraaga (where sukha=pleasure/happiness; anushay = accompanying; raaga=attraction; liking- Sutra 2-7). That attraction‚ which accompanies pleasure‚ is Raga. Raga is the attraction towards any person or object that causes pleasure or happiness. An experience of pleasure results in a latent impression which subsequently can lead to desire or craving
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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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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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