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• 94:9 The Spread of Buddhism
  ...hest [[frontiers]] of all the known world. In one [[generation]] he made [[Buddhism]] the dominant [[religion]] of one half the world. It soon became [[establi ...it was the miraculized gospel which made him a [[god]]. And the farther [[Buddhism]] spread from its highland [[home]] in India, the more unlike the teachings
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• Falun Gong
  ...s central tenets of [[Truthfulness]], [[Compassion]], and [[Forbearance]] (Chinese: 真、善、忍), and identifies as a qigong practice of the Buddhist scho ...e teachings of its founder, a "cultivation system" in the [[tradition]] of Chinese antiquity, and sometimes a religion or [[new religious movement]].
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• Mantras
  ...an essential part of the Hindu tradition and a customary practice within [[Buddhism]], [[Sikhism]] and [[Jainism]]. The use of mantras is now widespread throug ...ee the syllable: ''Aum'' which is central to both [[Hinduism|Hindu]] and [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] traditions.
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• Sutras
  ...orisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly, a [[text]] in Hinduism or Buddhism. Literally it means a thread or line that holds things together and is deri ...ch are regarded as records of the oral teachings of Gautama [[Buddha]]. In Chinese, these are known as 經 (pinyin: jīng). These teachings are assembled in p
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• Transcripts
  ...transcribed differently under different systems. For example, the Mandarin Chinese name for the capital of the People's Republic of China is Beijing in the co ...e, in a Hong Kong Newspaper, George Bush's name is transliterated into two Chinese characters that sounds like "Bou-sū" (布殊) by using the characters that
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• Subtle body
  ..."rainbow body" in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhism Tibetan Buddhism], "the body of bliss" in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriya_Yoga Kriya Yo ...] and other systems of India, the Buddhist psychology of Tibet, as well as Chinese ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoist_alchemy Taoist alchemy]) and Japanes
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• Eastern philosophy
  === Buddhism === ...od is largely irrelevant in Buddhism, though some sects (notably [[Tibetan Buddhism]]) do [[veneration|venerate]] a number of gods drawn in from local indigeno
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• Tao Te Ching
  ...ozi (simplified Chinese: 老子; traditional Chinese: 老子; pinyin: Lǎozǐ), is a Chinese [[classic]] [[text]]. Its name comes from the opening [[words]] of its two ...ely [[interpreted]] through the use of Taoist words and [[concepts]]. Many Chinese artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and even gardeners have
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• Intellectual History
  ...philosophical system originally developed from the teachings of the early Chinese sage Confucius. Confucius was the founder of the teachings of Confucianism. ...rnal, finite or infinite, unity or separation of the body and the [[Atman (Buddhism)|self]], complete inexistence of a person after nirvana and then death etc,
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• 92:5 The Great Religious Leaders
  ...]] by millions. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius Confucius] was to Chinese [[morality]] what [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato] was to [[Gree ...ngs of [[Islam]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hinduism], and [[Buddhism]] were synthesized by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanak Nanak] and his f
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• Philosophy
  ...ilosophical edifice of Indian religions viz., [[Hinduism]], [[Jainism]], [[Buddhism]] is built on the foundation laid by the Upanishads. Hindu philosophy is fo ...ilosophy in China. Confucianism developed in China around the same time as Buddhism and Jainism developed in India. Another school of philosophy, [[Taoism]],
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• Paper 94 - The Melchizedek Teachings in the Orient
  ...that of Hinduism, which provided for lesser and [[personal]] [[deities]]. Buddhism finally gave way in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_India northern ...the world's religions, has undergone further [[changes]] in response to [[Buddhism]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism Jainism] and to the later appe
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• Meditation
  ...n Vyas (Hatha Yoga: Its Context, Theory and Practice By Mikel Burley) (Zen Buddhism: A History (India and China By Heinrich Dumoulin, James W. Heisig, Paul F. ...se or final outcome." In a form of meditation using visualization, such as Chinese [[Qi Gong]], the practitioner concentrates on flows of energy (Qi) in the b
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• God
  * Shang Ti 上帝 typically used in Chinese, and the name (Hanyu Pinyin: shàng dì) (literally ''King Above''), is the ...lytheistic view of God in Hinduism to the almost non-theist view of God in Buddhism. In modern times, some more abstract concepts have been developed, such as
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• Culture
  ...is generally agreed to exert a unifying influence. Religions, especially [[Buddhism]] and [[Taoism]] have had an impact on the cultural traditions of East Asia ...erted cultural influence on various peoples of [[South Asia]]. Similarly, Buddhism is pervasive in [[Southeast Asia]].
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• Buddha
  ...[[wisdom]] (uncontactable after his physical [[death]]), whereas Mahayana Buddhism goes further and tends to see him as a projection of an [[eternity|eternal] ...hism''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Buddhism '''''this link'''''].</center>
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• Cultural
  ...is generally agreed to exert a unifying influence. Religions, especially [[Buddhism]] and [[Taoism]] have had an impact on the cultural traditions of East Asia ...erted cultural influence on various peoples of [[South Asia]]. Similarly, Buddhism is pervasive in [[Southeast Asia]].
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• Materialism
  ...ctrine oriented on realism and materialism in Ancient China. Other notable Chinese materialists of this time include Yang Xiong and Wang Chong. ...g [[Islam]], [[Christianity]], [[Judaism]], and arguably some schools of [[Buddhism]].
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• Happiness
  ...with a pure mind, surely happiness will follow like one's own shadow!" In Buddhism, the third of the Four Noble Truths states "to eliminate suffering, elimina The Chinese Confucian thinker Mencius, who 2300 years ago sought to give advice to the
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• Sacred Space
  ...search for such signs could develop into a [[science]] of [[divination]]. Chinese [[geomancy]] is just such an attempt to sort out the objective qualities of ...here the [[Buddha]] gained enlightenment, joined Northern Thai and Burmese Buddhism to the community of all Buddhists. The last shrine was in the [[Heaven of t
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