The Religions Book

119 See also: Higher levels of teaching 101 ■ The personal quest for truth 144 ■ The challenge of modernity 240–45 ■ A faith ope ...

120 similar distinction was being made at this time between pragmatic and absolute truth. For both Hindu and Buddhist thought, t ...

121 portrayal of gods and goddesses as having particular qualities or acting within the world. However, this devotion is no more ...

122 SO MANY FAITHS, SO MANY PATHS GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS T he idea that all religions lead to the same God was put forward by Sri Ram ...

123 See also: The ultimate reality 102–105 ■ Class systems and faith 302–303 ■ Cao Ðài aims to unify all faiths 316 ■ A faith op ...

124 NONVIOLENCE IS THE WEAPON OF THE STRONG HINDUISM IN THE POLITICAL AGE I t was while working to oppose racial discrimination ...

125 A lone protestor defies tanks near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in an image that became a global icon for the principle of p ...

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128 B uddhism is regarded by some as more of a philosophical system than a religion because it does not explicitly involve a god ...

129 out “Four Noble Truths”—the central doctrine of Buddhism—to explain the nature of suffering and how it could be overcome: du ...

FINDING THE MIDDLE WAY THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF BUDDHA ...

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132 I n northern India, the 6th century BCE was a time of radical social and political change. There was terrible bloodshed as l ...

133 lifestyle was incompatible with his growing awareness of life’s hardships and the certainty of death. In addition, material ...

134 philosophy: the wholehearted embrace of materialism. Their view was that if everything is simply a temporary arrangement of ...

135 suggests that there are ways or conditions under which it could be minimized. Buddha explained what these were in the teachi ...

THERE CAN BE AN END TO SUFFERING ESCAPE FROM THE ETERNAL CYCLE ...

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138 an overview of the human problem of suffering and solutions for it. The Truths, which are believed to be the subject of the ...