The Sacred Paths: Understanding the Religions of the WorldPearson Education, 2006 - 577 頁 This book combines study of the dynamic historical development of each religious tradition with a comparative thematic structure. In this way, the book helps readers to explore each of the major religions as a unique and integral system of meaning and life. At the same time, readers are encouraged to discover and explore the nature of religious experience by comparing basic themes and issues common to all religions. Covering the religions arising from India, China, Japan, and the Mediterranean world, this book introduces the key dimensions of religious experience, outlining the basic human concerns that give rise to religious experience, such as origin and identity, ultimate reality, human nature, and the good life. For anyone interested in exploring the origins and development of the diverse religions of the world. |
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... Land and Chan The cultural climate of China lent itself to the creation of simpler and more direct versions of Buddhism , which had greater ap- peal to the masses than the complex philosophical teach- ings of Tiantai and Huayan . The ...
... land was influenced by traditions of interaction with the kami of the land — the kami of the mountains , the rivers , the rice fields , and the rest of nature , together with the kami of ancestors and families . The story has many local ...
... Land of Reed Plains , with cries rising everywhere and all kinds of calami- ties occurring . So the eight hundred myriads of heavenly kami held a great festival . They set up a sasaki tree and hung strings of curved beads , a large ...