Buddhist temples

Japan’s Shinto Shrines in Crisis Shintoism is the most practiced indigenous religion in Japan as it is a label for a variety of ideas and practice. This religion is centered around honoring the kami, spirits in nature from which the Japanese people are said to have descended from. There are about 80,000 Shinto shrines in Japan. These shrines are often dedicated to and house kami gods, such as the Ise Grand Shrine, a complex of over a hundred shrines dedicated to the Goddess of the Sun, Kami…

the most common being known as "Shrine Shinto". Shrine Shinto mainly consists of rituals performed at shrines, hence the name. Before the Meiji restoration in 1868, shrines were disorganised institutions, generally associated or attached to a Buddhist temple. Now, The current successor to the imperial organisation system, the Association of Shinto Shrines, oversees about 80,000 shrines nationwide. Japan's education system is commonly regarded as one of the best on the planet, and Japan is…

cities of worship like Prayag (that provide holy confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers); Puri (Jagannath temple); Konark (Sun temple); Kanchipuram, Madurai, Tiruchirappalli and Kanniyakumari (Southern Gopurams), provide peace and reverence. In addition, there are also religious places that are carved with craftsmanship, at Belur and Halebid. In these temples, the interior and exterior walls are decorated with intricately-carved deities’ stylized motifs from nature and…

Early Buddhist studied in stupas similar to those in India. But as Buddhism became more Chinese the stupa would evolve into the iconic Chinese pagoda. Pagodas and temples for Buddhism was met with new Taoist temples in adding to Chinese cities and allowed the wealthy and working class people a place to intermix. As mountains were special and holy to the Chinese it was natural that temples and monasteries would expand to these secluded places. These hill complexes would experiment with water…

Although the Dalai Lama has been of fundamental importance to advocate non-violent approaches to policies and has never claimed to be seeking an independent nation status for Tibet, disputes between the two States have frequently escalated into violent conflict. After almost 10 years of the guerrilla war between Tibetan rebels and China’s The People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers, on the 17th March 1959, the political and spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama was forced to flee his own…

plague the planet. An example of contemporary religious intolerance is the fearful situation in Myanmar. In fact, Buddhists are currently discriminating against several religious minorities. An incident involving the burning of a Muslim man in March of 2013 during a riot further illustrates the somber situation in Myanmar. Terrifying statistics show that violence from militant Buddhist monks killed more than 43 people that March, and displaced at least 12,000. One reason for this amount of…

From Rig Vedic period to till today the lower caste people are suffering. But as a result of caste discrimination there is conversion into Buddhist and Christianity (NinianSmart, 1981). The value of humanity of Dalit people as a Hindu and the value of Dalits after conversion is the most interesting area of research. To see the culture from Rig Vedic period to till today is the aim this articles…

America is made up of different nationalities and religions, it is not expected to be a fully unified country. Coming from a Vietnamese and Cambodian family, I have very different beliefs than where I go to an all Catholic girls school. Because I am Buddhist, I disagree with what the Catholic Church says about religious practices. When I pray to God at school, I believe in the some of moral values taught by Jesus Christ, but I do not fully believe in following his foot steps. For example, I do…

includes Chinese, Koreans and the indigenous Ainu. In Japan, the two traditional religions are Buddhism and Shinto. 95% of the Japanese citizens abide by the fusion of Buddhism and Shintoism. The practices of Shinto and Buddhist are combined together into single religion, with Buddhist temples being built at the sites of important Shinto shrines. There are ethnic minorities in 1% of Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs. The national language of Japan is Japanese. Most of…

about my religion because Hinduism is complex and interesting religion to research about. In this paper I will talk about Introduction of Hinduism, Sacred texts, Notion of Karma and Reincarnation, Sacred symbols, Hinduism in the United States, Hindu temples in Philadelphia, Hindu Festivals and many other interesting facts about Hinduism. Introduction of Hinduism: Hinduism is the religion of around a billion people. Most of them reside in India, after that in Nepal. There are almost two…