focuses on the teachings of the Buddha. Included in this: “teachings on life as a monk, key teachings on the path to enlightenment, and teachings on Buddhist philosophy” (Khimjee, lesson 9). Whereas on the contrary, Mahayana Buddhists remain sacred, but they also implement newly composed texts. These include: “that enlightenment is possible for all Buddhists, not just monks, and that bodhisattvas can help people achieve enlightenment” (Khimjee, lesson 9). The main key difference between the two, is that
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(1363-1443) Buddhist concepts play a clear role in the poetic content of the text. In this poetry, the Buddhist philosophical concepts of material impermanence, human suffering (dukkha), and the unification of the spiritual self with the cosmos, appear throughout. These concepts also appear in the written words of Zen practitioners, whose poetry provides a window into the deeper Buddhist significance of the text. Buddhist doctrine begins with the diagnosis and cure of humanity's suffering via the Four
CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION “History has come to a stage when the moral man, the complete man, is more and more giving way, almost without knowing it, to make room for the commercial man, the man of limited purpose. This process aided by the wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of