Journal of Contemporary ReligionBorup, Jorn, 2016a. "Who are these Buddhists and How Many of Them are There? Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Counting Immigrant Buddhists: A Danish Case Study". Journal of Contemporary Religion 31, 1, pp. 85-100....
The ancient Egyptians maintained elaborate ceremonies and funerary preparations, such as embalming the dead, which is still common today. Tibetan Buddhists may opt for a sky burial, in which one's remains are left exposed to be consumed by vultures. Some people plan to be cremated when they ...
At first buddhists had trouble explaining buddhism to china . They used taoism beliefs to explain buddhism to Chinese people. Buddhism also impacted on the Chinese language and symbols then and today . many expressions in modern Chinese originated in Buddhist texts, and the different characteristics ...
The ancient Egyptians maintained elaborate ceremonies and funerary preparations, such as embalming the dead, which is still common today. Tibetan Buddhists may opt for a sky burial, in which one's remains are left exposed to be consumed by vultures. Some people plan to be cremated when they ...
Yet today most Buddhists who are to be found outside of India have taken him to be God and they prostrate themselves to idols made in their perception of his likeness. By using the principle of identifying the object of worship, we can easily detect false religions and the contrived ...
Buddhists don't believe in heaven or hell, or at least not in the same way as Christians. According toEssential Buddhism, by Diane Morgan, either place can exist on earth, and there are 11 ways for believers to feel pain: lust, hatred, illusion, sickness, decay, death, worry, ...
For many, the third day of Chinese New Year in Hong Kong is normally spent visiting a temple.Wong Tai Sin Templeis an important site for Buddhists, Taoists and Confucianists; worshippers present their prayers in thekau cimtradition of shaking a cylinder full of fortune-telling sti...
The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people and believed to be a reincarnation of Avalokitesvara, a Buddhist saint. The current Dalai Lama has lived in exile from Tibet since 1959, after the country was conquered by China and Buddhists were persecuted in the 1950s....
there millions of people that consider themselves Buddhist’s that are not monastics. In fact householders would be the vast majority of Buddhists. I would never want to give the impression that any of these challenges are insurmountable. To me these are some of the challenges not to be ...
Buddha was born in Nepal and the country is a tantric mix of Hindus, Buddhists, Newari and many other other beliefs. Visit the Maya Devi Temple in Lumbini where the Buddha was born. Surrounded by the Sacred Gardens there are over 20 Buddhist Monasteries to visit, study in or even stay ...