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...th century during the Ming Dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. The novel is a fictionalized account of the legendary pilgrimage to India of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang, and loosely based its source from the historic text Great Tang Records on the Western Regions and traditional folk tales. The monk travelled to the "Western Regions" during the Tang Dynasty, to obtain ...

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...roastrians believe in a single God. This is called monotheism. The purist Buddhists would not believe in a special god, but some Buddhist sects do a... ...also made of the Bible, of the works of Josephus and of all other ancient texts. Sometimes it is a question as to whether the authors to which the wr... ...t of Yahweh, God or Allah. And they speak of their experiences just as do Buddhists or Hindus who have united with the oneness of nature. These saint... ... you. Throw in 2/3rds of a billi on Hindus and a third of a billion Buddhists and you have most of the world categorized. The Jews, for all the... ...world. The places of worship like the Greek temples on the Acropolis, the Buddhist shrines at Ankor, the magnificent Christian cathedrals and the in... ...—―Why haven‘t the states of the West adopted the peaceful approach of the Buddhists or the Jains. War would certainly not be an option. But using the... ...cred scriptures of Baha'u'llah of the Bahai faith, and perhaps the ‗ruti‘ texts of Hinduism which were whispered by the wind to Brahmin priests and... ...enice 900 years after the Prophet lived. ―But there are many other texts that are sometimes even more important than the holy scriptures for ... ... -- ―If the Bible was correctly handed down from Moses until the written texts we have first appeared about 2000 years ago, the verb used was ratsa...

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...That the gods are inside of us is something that sacred Hindu and Egyptian texts state explicitly. Homer tells us that primary beauty brings with ... ... perfection instead is for Jews and Christians, or Illumination is for the Buddhists. Its purpose is to develop the human artistic ability to create... ... Homer was not a prophet, he was a poet. The Hindus who created the sacred texts of the Upanishad were also poets. A poet is not a historian and he ... ...e God of the Hebrews and beauty. It is not mentioned. We do not know what Buddhist thought says about the search for beauty. Wisdom is mentioned, b... ... books of Buddha speak of religious teachings that over time became sacred texts, Homer’s poems are not religious texts, they are not sacred to anyo... ...ople appreciate them. They are, however, also books of wisdom, just as the Buddhist texts and the Bible are. I consider my hypotheses as a way to in... ...eciate them. They are, however, also books of wisdom, just as the Buddhist texts and the Bible are. I consider my hypotheses as a way to interpret H... ...inter ... and again spring” A Film by Kim Ki Duk To examine Buddhist thought I won’t use books written on this topic. Instead I will ... ...ng”. This author illustrates the existence of two realities, as seen in Buddhist thought and on the type of interpretation I know how to make of ...

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...ependence Museum; mountain climbing; free English lessons, and visits to his Buddhist temple and congregation. Soon Sang Huin was spending every night... ...ng a drama of an ancient Korean period linked with reverberating melancholic Buddhist melodies. Toward 6 o'clock, he was still there--and for his exce... ...riptures or some dogmatic premises that were also claimed as infallible, the Buddhist and the Moslem were threats for an American Christian no less th... ...m it. Daydreaming is one of many defense mechanisms not listed in psychology texts. It's used by children when old things like Recla don't know how t... ...e vanquished from the kingdom. They refused to stand outside begging like a Buddhist mendicant at 6:00 a.m. in Laos. They were the making of a more ... ...o revive him with a real personality. Michael was not inclined to befriend a Buddhist this lifelessly innocuous and bereft of money and status so she ...

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... halted amazed. In the entrance hall stood the larger figures of the Greco Buddhist sculptures done, savants know how long since, by forgotten workmen... ...s and slabs crowded with figures that had encrusted the brick walls of the Buddhist stupas and viharas of the North Country and now, dug up and labell... ... few in the world who still have the secret of the conventional brush pen Buddhist pictures which are, as it were, half written and half drawn. But t... ... Buddha, but, borne by his own thoughts, slid into Tibetan and long droned texts from a Chinese book of the Buddha’s life. The gentle, toler ant folk... ...id Father Victor, when he had talked without a break for ten minutes. ‘His Buddhist friend has levanted after taking my name and address. I can’t quit... ... ’ He paused, with a puzzled smile. ‘What am I? Mussalman, Hindu, Jain, or Buddhist? That is a hard knot.’ ‘Thou art beyond question an unbeliever, an... ...t they recognized the big hat, the clicking rosary, and the rare Chi nese texts for great authority; and they respected the man beneath the hat. ‘We ... ...nd all needs.’ And so he petted and comforted Kim with wise saws and grave texts on that little understood beast, our Body, who, being but a delusion,... ... shifted thee and lifted thee and slapped and twisted thy ten toes to find texts flung at my head? Somewhere a mother must have borne thee to break he...

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...considerable freedom, but Origen is already hope- lessly in the net of the texts. The writer of St. John’s gospel was a free man, but Origen was a sup... ...at he speaks of as renascent or modern religion; he is neither atheist nor Buddhist nor Mohammedan nor Chris- tian. He will make no pretence, therefor... ...monstrated by a free use of miracles. Only one great religious system, the Buddhist, seems to have resisted the temptation to secure for its divinity ... ...e at last extinct. If that is not the very “resignation” he imputes to the Buddhist I do not know what it is. He believes that an individual which has...

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...eternally against that Being of silence and darkness beyond the stars. The Buddhists made the Lord Buddha the leader of men out of the futility and co... ...les.” Old Likeman began to speak and had a fit of coughing. “Some of these texts—whuff, whuff—like a conjuror’s hat— whuff—make ‘em—fit anything.” A m... ...these brief dicta with- out serious exertion, he found them very congenial texts, but there were insuperable difficulties in the problem why Likeman s... ...tle Testament to verify them. After some slight trouble he located the two texts. The first, from Philippians, ran in the old version, “He that hath b... ...come apart from the great world of faith, Catholic, Islamic, Brahministic, Buddhistic, that grows now to a common consciousness of the near Advent of ...

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...ts not Baptists, and the Baptists Roman Catholics, and the Roman Catholics Buddhists, and the Buddhists Quakers, and the Quakers Episcopalians, and th... ... more or less entertainment out of it. I did as you ordered: I placed two texts before my eyes— one a dull one and barren of interest, the other one ...

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...—”Cosmic conscious- 8 The V arieties of Religious Experience ness”— Yoga— Buddhistic mysticism— Sufism— Christian mystics— Their sense of revelation—... ..., who follows the con- ventional observances of his country, whether it be Buddhist, Christian, or Mohammedan. His religion has been made for him by o... ...urse, the Buddha himself stands in place of a God; but in strict- ness the Buddhistic system is atheistic. Modern tran- scendental idealism, Emersonia... ...riences. The sort of appeal that Emersonian optimism, on the one hand, and Buddhistic pessimism, on the other, make to the individual and the son of r... ...uality of preciousness to those which we shall erelong see that Ilrahmans, Buddhists, Christians, Mohammedans, twice-born people whose religion is non... ...victim of verbal automatisms, both motor and sen- sory. These were usually texts of Scripture which, [80] My extracts are from the French translation ... ...asive and powerful 161 William James that if I had not clung to scripture-texts like ‘The eter- nal God is my refuge,’ etc., ‘Come unto me, all ye th... ... have been even slower. For years together he was alternately haunted with texts of Scripture, now up and now down, but at last with an ever growing r... ...nd overpowering impressions of the meaning of suddenly presented scripture texts, the melting emotions and tumultuous affections con- nected with the ...

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... to be sure.” “And why live? The Schopenhauers, the Hartmanns, and all the Buddhists, say that the greatest happiness is Nir- vana, Non-Life; and they... ... great and dangerous intimacy between a man and a woman under certain pre- texts. One must make himself the laughing stock of ev- erybody, if he desir...

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...ple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away,—means, teach- ers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the pre... ...d, or Jeremiah, or Paul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. We are like children who repeat by rote the sentence... ...t additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry. Among many texts take the following. The Roman Martius has conquered Ath- ens,—all but... ...r the surface of the water. But this is flat rebellion. Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in ev- ery ...