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Buddhism doctrine and schools – Critics of Buddhism

Nicolae Sfetcu — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 14:11:52 +0000

Doctrine The term “Buddhism”, of Western invention, is commonly used to designate, in the form of a somewhat rough translation, the “Dharma (teaching, doctrine) of the Buddha”, 佛教 (fójiào) in Chinese, bukkyō in Japanese , nang pa sangs rgyas pa’i … Read More

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Buddhism

Nicolae Sfetcu — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 09:16:54 +0000

(A statue of the Buddha in Vietnam) Buddhism is, according to the Western point of view, a religion (including a state religion) or a philosophy, or both, whose origins go back to India in the fifth century BC after the … Read More

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Afterlife in Buddhism and Christianity

Nicolae Sfetcu — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:34:23 +0000

Afterlife in Buddhism (Bhavachakra) In the original Buddhism, the living beings (sattva) fall into Six Destinies (gati), according to the acts of which they feel the reward according to the deeds of past lives: 1) inhabitants of the underworld (naraka, … Read More

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History of literary translation

Nicolae Sfetcu — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:10:50 +0000

The first important translation in the West was that of the Septuagint,[1] a collection of Jewish Scriptures translated into Koine Greek in Alexandria between the 3rd and 1st centuries BCE. The dispersed Jews had forgotten their ancestral language and needed … Read More

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