Word: buddhisms
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What is the meaning of Asian and African portraits of Jesus, and of portraits of Jesus in Buddhism, Judaism and Islam...
...addition to reading extensively from the New Testament, students will read a diversity of works such as Jesus: A revolutionary Biography, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham Jail, and Buddhism as a Challenge to Christians...
...people who could speak a foreign language, even people who wore glasses, were purged as he sought to reduce all of Cambodia to the level of the peasant class. The Vietnamese could be cruel captors, but their Confucian heritage left them open to educational reform. In Cambodia, by contrast, Buddhism encouraged a belief in the ineluctability of karma and the idea that evil suffered is evil deserved. "The idea of karma goes very deep in this society, and I think that was part of the mentality of the Khmer Rouge when they were massacring people," said Francois Ponchaud, a priest...
MOSCOW: Sitting on Boris Yeltsin's desk today is a bill that would drive any man to drink. The communist-controlled Duma has handed Yeltsin a draft law that would put a tourniquet on religious freedom in Russia. The four "traditional" faiths: Russian Orthodoxy, Judaism, Buddhism and Islam, would remain comfortably entrenched. The less-established religions, however, face a ban on owning property, hosting foreign missionaries, and public worship, all privileges of official status. It all adds up as a cultural Great Wall, with the U.S. in the role of the barbarian. "The West is using religion as a means...
...voted to bar any religions from operating in the country unless they have been established there for more than 15 years. Denounced by human rights activists as trampling on Russian constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion, the bill is a boon for other traditional faiths such as Islam and Buddhism. But it's theRussian Orthodox Church that was the driving force behind the move. The church has increasingly seen its hold over Russian souls wrested away by foreign upstarts from Hare Krishnas to Mormons to Aum Shinri Kyo wannabe-cults. Calling on a war chest (supplied by its duty-free...