The category of “other religion” permitted 390,000 Jedi to self-define and to self-identify in the 2001 census for England and Wales. This religion of digital possibilities was a mixture of science fiction and Buddhism, with its own forms of worship and even monasticism. Its claims to be...
Quick Guide to Japan's Ryokai (Two-World) Mandala, Its Layout, Its Deities. Japanese Esoteric Buddhism
Having briefly surveyed evidence that Shaivism (the term encompasses both theśiva-dharmaof the lay adherents and themantra-mārgaof Tantric initiates) was a coherent and distinct religious tradition, one that Brahmanism (vaidika-dharma) resisted the encroachment of, we may now begin to conte...
17 Jains celebrated the festival of Diwali, in late October, just like Vaishnavs and other brahmanical sects, although they linked it to the final spiritual liberation of the tīrthaṅkar Mahavir. Like Hindus, Jains in western India considered Diwali as the beginning of the new year for ...
(theMonasticOrder,僧).BuddhismbecameestablishedinChinainitsMahayanaform(GreatVehicle).ThesplitbetweenHinayana(LesserVehicle)andMahayanahadalreadytakenplacesomecenturiesearlierinIndia.BuddhismispracticedtodayasHinayanainSriLanka,Burma,ThailandandelsewhereinSoutheastAsia,whilevarioussectsofMahayanaareinChina,Japan,Korea,...
This activity has become by now, in the words of Feyerabend, the “toy” of humans acting like religious sects moving in ever-narrowing academic circles [9]. Technical accessibility thus, in the opinion of the authors, is a self-standing paradigm, as, e.g., the creation and operation of...