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- 131: Asia 2
- ... Asia and in western China. Russian is the principal language in Siberia. Islam dominates in Southwest Asia and Central Asia and is of major importance in South Asia and Indonesia. Hinduism is predominant in India. Buddhism extends through interior Asia and into Southeast Asia, China and Japan. Patterns of Economic Development Most of Asia is economically underdeveloped, but a number of important exceptions exist. Japan has successfully modernized its economy, as ...
- 132: Greek Gods
- ... took part in the workings of society itself. Even simple aspects of day-to-day life such as sex and disputes between mortals were supposedly influenced by godly workings. Unlike modern religions such as Catholicism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, where an omnipotent force supposedly controls the workings of the world, a hierarchy of Gods characterized religion in ancient Greece. Working as one big family, which they actually were, each one of the ...
- 133: The Sextants Of Beijing
- ... in a great deal and were still traded around the world, development of porcelain was much finer than earlier ceramics. Also, during this period the most influential features of the traffic were the spread of Buddhism from India to China. Along with them, they took elements of Confucianism and other cultural aspects of Chinese civilization. The China's first identical interaction with Europe and European culture was during the sixteenth through ...
- 134: The Bhagavad Gita
- ... standard in other religions studied thus far. Meditation, and the true definition of yoga, is also very appealing. The idea of temperate eating and sleeping as a virtue is similar to the beliefs of both Buddhism and Christianity, though here it is also a prerequisite for the ability to meditate. Krishna, within The Bhagavad Gita, uses meditation in his teaching of the inner side of spiritual life. Again, the love that ...
- 135: The Siddhartha By Hermann Hess
- ... not find his salvation. He quests his torment, which is only escaped from the 'Self' for temporarily. Again, Siddhartha rejects and leaves the Samana ascetic knowledge. Siddhartha ends his knowledge quests: Brahminism, Samanic asceticism, and Buddhism. He turns to the use of his senses in finding his goal. His main goal is to be his 'Self'. His sense of 'being' is isolated by his knowledge. He realizes that he does not ...
- 136: Silkworms
- ... Huang's interest in Taoism, they were all somehow reflection of Mao's affection. Just around the same period of time, he has been encouraging the peasants for abandoning the worship of Gods and rejecting Buddhism. T'ung Pao hated the foreigners. Since they brought in foreign goods in, in other words, they brough in competitions. The global power seemed to have shifted irrevocably from East to West since the Opium ...
- 137: Iliad And Odyssey
- ... were treated in the era cave the cave men. Today, it is the exact opposite. In todays society almost every religion is monotheistic. No major religion believes in more than one God. Islam, Hindu, Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism all have one divine ruler. In the society of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the religion is a type of Greek Mythology; which is a polytheistic religion. There are gods representing every ...
- 138: Spring Silkworms
- ... Huang's interest in Taoism, they were all somehow reflection of Mao's affection. Just around the same period of time, he has been encouraging the peasants for abandoning the worship of Gods and rejecting Buddhism. T'ung Pao hated the foreigners. Since they brought in foreign goods in, in other words, they brough in competitions. The global power seemed to have shifted irrevocably from East to West since the Opium ...
- 139: Greek Gods
- ... took part in the workings of society itself. Even simple aspects of day-to-day life such as sex and disputes between mortals were supposedly influenced by godly workings. Unlike modern religions such as Catholicism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, where an omnipotent force supposedly controls the workings of the world, a hierarchy of Gods characterized religion in ancient Greece. Working as one big family, which they actually were, each one of the ...
- 140: The Genji Monogatari
- ... mystery of why the story does not end with his death. Normally biographies end with the death of the hero, but since Genji has been elevated to Nature incarnate, then he embodies the spirit of Buddhism that was so prevalent at the time--his story begins again like the souls trying to reach Nirvana. Thus we begin to see that without properly understanding the use of nature in Genji monogatari, one ...
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