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...databases, while YaaleVe' Yavo, an Orthodox Jewish site, forwards E-mailed prayers to Jerusalem, where they are affixed to the Western Wall. Two Websites are devoted to Cao Daiism, the tiny Vietnamese sect that worships French novelist Victor Hugo as a saint, and a handful probe the mysteries of Jainism, an Indian religion in which (as one learns on the Net) the truly faithful sweep the ground with a small broom to avoid accidentally stepping on insects or other hapless creatures. Even the famously technophobic Amish are represented online by a Website run by Ohio State University. It offers, among...
...ahimsa) became one of the five moral virtues. Gautama Buddha (500 B.C.) preached the impracticality of selfishness and hatred, saying that "hatreds are not quenched by hatred. Hatreds are quenched by love." Side by side with Buddhism in the 6th century B.C. came the similar, if sterner, ethics of Jainism, which held that because "all beings hate pains," the "quintessence of wisdom is not to kill anything...
Hard-Boiled Self-Sacrifice. Gandhi, who grew up in Jain-strong western India, was particularly influenced by Jainism. But in perfecting the strategy that peacefully defeated Britain in India, Gandhi drew heavily on the New Testament, which awakened him to "the Tightness and value of passive resistance." Gandhi's conviction was further bolstered by Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You and Thoreau's famed essay Civil Disobedience, both written by men who made celebrated attempts to carry out nonviolence. What emerged in Gandhi was a hard-boiled idea that sacrificing oneself is ultimately more...
Dartmouth announcement was the teacher designated. He is Dr. S. L. Joshi, native of India, graduate of a Mohammedan university, postgraduate student in England, Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary. Lately he has been on the staff of the University of Colorado. He will instruct Dartmouth men in Brahmanism, Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islamism, recognizing religion as a central factor in human development, presumably conducting a comparative examination with cultural detachment rare among less widely traveled professors...
November 19, Rig Veda, Uponishads, Vedanta, Yoga; November 21, Buddhism, Jainism; November 26, Vaishnava, Saiva and Sakta Theology; November 23, Epics, Drama, Music and Dancing; December 3, Theory of Art Silpa Sastras, Caste Status of Craftsmen; December 5, Buddhist Sculpture; December 10, Brahmanical Sculpture; December 12, Buddhist and Jaina Painting; December 17, Rajput and Mughal Painting; December 19, Architecture...