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Sei Shonagon draws her court life and sophisticated culture with warm atmosphere in The Pillow Book. Sei Shonagon was a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Teishi and lived most flourished time of the Heian Period that aristocrats established and introduced the new cultures to the court. The Heian culture emphasized appearance. In fact, Sei Shonagon vividly deserves how people set a high value looks. For example, She mentions how a person wears or piles up the colored clothing again and again, such…

Iconography The Amida Buddha is identified as Buddha rather than an anonymous man because of religious details and icons. The position he is sitting in and the way his hands are folded represents the traditional position of meditation. His position identifies him as a holy and religious man. More key details that identify the image as Buddha include the top knot on his head that symbolizes enlightenment. Along with his long ear lobes, which entail a wealthy person who wore expensive earrings…

In the history of World Religion, the collaborating authors Terry C. Muck, Harold A. Netland, Gerald R. McDermott recognizes Buddhism as a cross-cultural religion founded in India by a man named Siddhartha Gautama (563-483 BCE). As a result of this finding, some people have crossover from Christian’s belief to the belief of Buddhism, namely Rita Gross in the year of 1973. It is evidently written that after much soul searching Rita Gross decided at the age of thirty to become a Buddhist.…

“American adults are converting from Christianity to Buddhism.” (Robinson, 2010). It seems only right to gain an understanding of why one would convert from their religion to another. There is no Theology in Buddhism, which is confusing to many with regards to religion because how do you have a religion with no God. The complexity behind the definition of religion is so intense nowadays that views of another religion even being a religion are common. Some view the vision of Buddhism as a…

Buddhism goes beyond religion and is more of a philosophy or a way of life. The Buddhist way of life of peace, love, kindness and wisdom is relevant today, just as much as it was in ancient India. All of our problematic sufferings arise from the confusion that causes a negative state of mind, and all of our good fortune arises from a peaceful state of mind. Buddha taught methods so that negative states of mind, such as jealousy, anger, and ignorance, could be gradually overcome. Having done this…

In about 1500 BCE, the Aryans came to Northern India and created a religion based on traditions and ritual purity. They called this religion Hinduism. Hinduism has four major jatis or caste; the Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and the Shudras with the untouchables being an unsaid fifth caste. A member of the Kshatriyas, Siddhartha Gautama, started traveling between 600 BCE and 500 BCE within Nepal and Northern India preaching kindness and how to end suffering. By the time Buddha, formerly…

The artwork I decided to do for this essay as you can see by the title is called “China Monument: Temple of Heaven” by Wenda Gu and was created in 1998. The artworks medium is known as mixed media, which is known as, “the integrated use of different forms of media, esp within the art.”(in-text). In this artwork the media shows projects of texts and represents the spiritual aspect of it (in-text). The artwork has a mix of hair intertwined with different texts from all over the world. Gu is trying…

Throughout the ages, Buddhist’s practices have flourished and extended to a multitude of regions throughout the world. Although, these practices never reached the western culture until close to the end of the 19th century, Buddhism is the fifth most populated religion with approximately three hundred seventy-six million followers. Furthermore, it is also one of the oldest religions, originating about 2,500 years ago in the 6th century BCE. From this widespread expansion, there has been a…

When attending the Rubin Museum of art, the first thing I found out, was that the museum was once a department store called Barneys. When we started our tour around the museum, we first started at the top floor called “the world is sound”. While being there, we learned a lot about Tibetan Buddhist’ ritual of music. This exhibition explored the different dimensions of sound and listening, and its many functions in the Tibetan Buddhism. The first floor we had gone to, which was the fourth floor…

Siddhartha has made many travels in the pursuit of reaching Nirvana, to have many questions answered, and to rid himself of his ego. He started out with being a member of the Brahmins as a child for he was the son of a Brahmin. He learned many hymns and verses and knew the ways of the Brahmins better than most others his age. However, he felt that “the wise Brahmins had already imparted to him the bulk and the best of their knowledge” (Hesse 5). Thus, it can be supported that teachings have a…