Essays about Religion

My dialogue with Laural Fawcett focused on her journey to becoming Buddhist, exploring the middle realm- from suffering that motivated her to seek spiritual development, which we studied during this semester. During this dialogue, I obtained new insights on the concept of Sanskrit, Dukkha, and the active practice of Buddha’s teachings. Laural described her journey…

An important part of being a nurse is understanding many ethnic, cultural, and religious groups and their practices. Nurses should not stereotype their patients, rather they should ask what groups they associate themselves with. The nurse can then perform care that is appropriate for the ethnic, cultural, or religious group they are a part of….

In the 6th century BC, Siddhartha Gautama was disturbed by encountering for the first time, a sick man, an old man, and a corpse. He was overcome with these sights and was determined to search for a way to end human suffering. He founded the religion Buddhism which freed oneself from suffering. Through the Silk…

In the Origin of the Buddha Image, Buddha was formerly represented as an adept or a teacher with its chief iconographic peculiarities that were rarely represented quasi-anatomically in a walking stance only until early Indian art (2). With the evolvement in iconographies, how has the Standing Buddha from the Gupta Period in Sarnath in the…

Hinduism and Buddhism are two of the main religions and philosophies that we studied in class, and in the world. At the heart of these two philosophies are figures that helped define them. For Hinduism, this was Arjuna, the Pandava prince accompanied by Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita. The main figure in Buddhism is Siddhartha…

Mission of the Buddha was for the good of many and or the welfare of many (bahujanahitāya bahujansukhāya). It was a mission to spread awareness in human society against evil things and evil deeds. He started this mission for delivering man from all kinds of sufferings. While its primary interest has been moral and spiritual,…

The book The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi is taken place in the 1970s, specifically in England. Back in the 1960’s England needed labor force since their kind was getting old. Therefore, many people from Asia, mainly Indians, came to work. As a result, there was a change in cultures in England. Instead of…

Mission of the Buddha was for the good of many and or the welfare of many (bahujanahitāya bahujansukhāya). It was a mission to spread awareness in human society against evil things and evil deeds. He started this mission for delivering man from all kinds of sufferings. While its primary interest has been moral and spiritual,…

Western Buddhism is a form of Modern Buddhism that has emerged recently as an answer to the West’s doubts regarding traditional Buddhism due to secular concerns. It thus does away with many of the superstitions behind traditional Buddhism such as karma, rebirth, nirvana, realms of existence and the like. This form of Buddhism largely focuses…

Buddha realized that nothing was really permanent. He asked himself what is this life like? Buddha thus gave his message to his father, wife and son. They gave no importance to religious rituals. He tried to find out why the mind distracted. He added a spirit of tolerance and tolerance to this mission. He spoke…