Buddhism: The Four Noble Truths The second truth is the origin (Pali and Sanskrit:samudaya) or cause of suffering, which the Buddha associated with craving or attachment in his first sermon. In other Buddhist texts the causes of suffering are understood as stemming from negative actions (e.g...
Interesting enough, the Dead Sea Scrolls were first placed under the control of the Christians who attempted to conceal what they revealed -- but the control of the scrolls was then placed in the hands of the Jews after the 1967 war. What was the significance of the discovery? Biblical ...
Buddhism Siddharta Gautama, the man who would later be known as theBuddha, was born in the city of Lumbini in present-day Nepal in 623BC. He was born premature, and astrologers prophesied that the boy would either conquer the world in the future or completely reject it. His father wanted ...
He gave us plenty of facts about the three temples and kept the tour very interesting. We could not have done this tour solo and gained as much info as we did with Pat. He even sorted us some tickets to a brilliant Cabaret show that evening. 10/10 tour I’d deffo...
This chapter may also be interesting to compare with that of Choe Namseon who also sought to place the Hwarang in abroader diachronic perspective. History of Ancient Joseon/Korean Culture– Chapter 2: The Sam’rang(三郞)tour(巡遊)and transmission of Seon-gyo(仙敎) ...
On the right, the notion and perimeter of the “community” has been extended so far as to include everybody… as underpinned by the globalist philosophy or Universalism of Christianity and Buddhism, where we are all one world, one human race. This, too, is captured as part of the teachin...
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There is an interesting parallel here with the Greeks, who adopted Clio (“the proclaimer”) as the muse for both historians and epic poets. According to Edgar Forsdyke, the Greeks “rejected fiction in principle but in practice accepted much fiction as historical fact” (Forsdyke 1956, p...