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Culture can be defined as the way of life for many groups of people. Often times, culture forges one's identity, and allows them to express themselves through their cultural roots or where they came from. Countries from all around the world share different perspectives on the music, clothes, religion and food, which makes them unique in many aspects. Growing up as a Cambodian who was raised in America allowed me to figure out my true identity. The culture and traditions that both countries…

Buddhism homework See my Buddha analysis in ‘What’s God got to do ….’ https://books.google.com/books?id=UvASBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Proceed and do the following: (a) Tell the story of the Buddha’s enlightenment. Buddha was born into wealth and his mother was a virgin. She had a dream that she was touched by an white elephant with an lotus flower and a baby appeared. He didn't see poverty, when he was young, he was full of wealth. Until,…

The religion of Hinduism has no founder. Hinduism is a collection of other religions that slowly merged into one. In Hinduism, there are traces of the Vedic Religion. The founder of Buddhism is Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha was born into a noble family where his family was told that if Siddhartha stayed at home, he will be a world ruler. If Siddhartha leaves home, he would become a universal spiritual world leader. Siddhartha’s father tried to keep him at home but Siddhartha decided to leave…

Jainism originated in India, and to this day only four to five million people in India believe in this religion(Jainism video). Jainism is said to not have one single founder, however they do believe in Tirthankaras. Tirthankaras were the twenty four revealers of truth; the word means ford finder. Tirthankara will only appear on earth when there is a need for renewal of the good teachings that have been abandoned. The last known Tirthankara was known as Mahavira, he lived approximately from…

Buddhism was a very controversial philosophy in ancient China; many philosophers and scholars had strong views and arguments for or against Buddhism’s principles. Buddhism was founded in India and brought to China around the first century C.E. Buddhism’s influences spread throughout China slowly but gained more followers after the collapse of the Han dynasty in 220 C.E and continued to spread many centuries afterwards, during the empire’s political instability. China’s broken government and…

century B.C.E by Siddhartha Goutama (the Buddha). The Buddha would teach people who followed him about the truth of life and the compassion for suffering or the way in which to led your life. His doctrines included the four noble truths and the eightfold path. His first noble truth is that life is suffering, the second is suffering is caused by craving for things to be what they are not, the third is that suffering has an end and the fourth offers the means to that end; the eightfold path and…

Culture is defined to be the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time according to the Cambridge Dictionary (Cambridge Dictionaries 2016). Hinduism is known to be the oldest living religion in the world and unlike most of other religions; Hinduism has no single founder, no single script, and no commonly set of teachings according to BBC.com. Hinduism has many cultural aspects to it such as they belief that existence is a cycle…

There are a variety of belief systems practiced throughout the world today. Many of these beliefs have developed massive followings, and as a result, have had a considerable amount of influence on culture in the areas where they are practiced. Hinduism, which based out of India, and Confucianism, which based out of China, had given their people a way to live their lives. More than 3000 years ago, the religion Hinduism was developed in the subcontinent of India. There is no specific founder of…

Known as the Axial Age, the 6th century BC started the first day of 600BC and ended the last day of 501BC, representing a peak period in human history. If the media had existed, Sanskrit clay tablets would have read from UPI Babylon: Israelites Living in Captivity Return Home to Build Second Temple, Confucius and Laozi Teach New Ethical and Religious Ideas in China and on the home front: Mahavira Founds New Religion Jainism. The Buddha was born Prince Siddhartha Gautama in Nepal to the Sakyas…

bottom level of reality” (222). However, the Buddhist parable of the arrow would tell all these philosophers to shut up and their arguments don't matter. Buddha thinks anything that distracts from reaching enlightenment or truth is pointless. The 4 noble truths state the causes of suffering and how to end suffering. To the Buddha, this is all that's important, not asking “whether the world is eternal or not eternal, whether the world is…