Schools of Buddhism

Name: Patrick Clark Date: 6/27/2017 COMS 108. 301 Instructor: Mr. Randy Manis TITLE OF SPEECH: Pray in schools General Purpose: To persuade. Specific Purpose and Significance: To persuade my audience to respect religions in schools. Central Idea: ATTENTION STEP I. Attention Getter: Do you have a choice in your religion? Should praying be in Schools? The 1st Amendment states, “Prohibits Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion

The Chinese region is profound and quite extensive. In Chinese culture and history, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism seem to blend together. In the Shang Dynasty around 2000 BC, the people of China were polytheistic, worshipping many gods at a time. People of this time worshipped their own ancestors as gods, as they believed they became like gods after dying. The basic principles of ancient Chinese philosophy consisted of five features: spiritual existence, morality, harmony, intuition, and practice

constantly interpreted and re-interpreted, leading to many discrepancies. These discrepancies lead to different ideologies and the division of the religious order into various sects. The two main sects became the known as the Mahayana school and the Hinayana school but despite the artificial differences resulting from the division of the Mahayana sect from the earlier Buddhist teachings (Hinayana), the essence of their beliefs is two of the same. The Hinayana Sect, meaning the ‘lesser vehicle’ was

According to Dictionary.com, “syncretistic” means the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought. In the Chinese culture and religions this is shown through the merging of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism together and formatting Neo-Confucianism. Buddhism came to an imaginative and thriving crest amid the Tang dynasty; yet the Sung dynasty saw a response to the "remote" religion and an inventive transformation of the stale Confucian convention

by selfishness, hate and anarchy and every person who denies religion brings us a step closer to that dark world. In the Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra, he says that Buddhism has been, for many centuries and Buddhism is divided into two main religious groups Mahayana Buddhism and Hinayana Buddhism. The Hinayana is an orthodox school which sticks to the letter of the buddha’s teaching. On the other hand, the Mahayana, shows a more flexible attitude, believing that the spirit of the doctrine is more

The extent of my knowledge of Buddhism was that of the “figurines” that they seemed to worship. Even that knowledge is not completely accurate. Being exposed to an Eastern Psychology class has and will be beneficial to develop my view of the world and the people in it. From the knowledge I have obtained so far from this class and article, I will discuss some of the more major ideas presented. As an American, it is sometimes hard to grasp the concept of Buddhism because our society has placed

Religious Exploration through Buddhism There are over 7 billion people on this world and over four-fifths of these people identify with a religion in one way or another (Livingston). Upon the hundreds of religions on Earth it is difficult to even begin to comprehend all their most basic beliefs, their scriptures, or even to whom they worship. The least any person can do is to learn about one of them and understand their belief system. During an assignment for school I was required to immerse my-self

Buddhism Sarahvanni K. Bunma 495870 PHI 353 Professor Stamps California Baptist University Siddhartha Gautama was the man who founded Buddhism. Gautama was born in around 560 B.C. in Lumbini near the border of India in what is now Nepal. He was not divine at first and was born as a royal prince and was also born as a Hindu. According to a legend, at his birth a soothsayer predicted that he might become the greatest ruler in human history but if he ever saw four things- sickness, old

January 1, 1919 to Sol Salinger and Marie Jillisch (McGrath). Born in New York City, he spent most of his childhood there (Telgen 117). When he was growing up, academic excellence was not one of Salinger’s priorities (117). After failing several prep schools, he finally graduated from Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania (117). Yet, with an IQ of 115, he never did finish his post-secondary education (Hipple 106; Miller 551). In 1937, Salinger traveled to Austria and Poland to learn his father’s

Culturally Homogenous 4. Regional differences in dialect, food, customs due to difficulty in travel and communication 5. Immigration from eastern Asia 6. Contact with eastern Asia, sea causes isolation from the other countries II. Japan before Buddhism A. Jomon Period (ca. 10,500-300 B.C.) i. Pottery before Farming 1. Jomons were hunter-gatherers, earliest distinctive culture 2. Jomon-decorations marking many earthenware vessels 3. Pit dwellings allowed for settlement, a break