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Buddhism
Title: Buddhism
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 1405 | Pages: 6.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Buddhism
Buddhism
Buddhism, one of the major religions of the world, was founded by Siddhartha
Gautama, the Buddha, who lived in northern India from 560 to 480 B.C. The time of the
Buddha was one of social and religious change, marked by the further advance of Aryan
civilization into the Ganges Plain, the development of trade and cities, the breakdown of
old tribal structures, and the rise of a whole spectrum of new religious movements that
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…showed last 75 words of 1405 total…master-disciple relationship often involves private interviews in which
the Zen trait of unconventionality sometimes comes to the fore; the master will allow no
refuge in the Buddha or the sutras but demands from his disciple a direct answer to his
assigned koan (Davids 114). Conversely, the master may goad the disciple by remaining
silent or compassionately help him out, but with the constant aim of trying to cause a
breakthrough from conventional to absolute truth (Corless 131).
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