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buddhism

vitale

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1. What does Buddhism say about human nature?
2. According to Buddhism, is a•human bOeing a thing or a 'process'? Explain your answer in the light of the "Questions of King Melinda".
3. What is the Buddhist idea of what happens to the individual human being when one dies?
4. What is the Buddhist idea of afterlife and samsara/ karma, as opposed to its idea of liberation/ salvation/ nirvana?
a. In Buddhism, how are the individual human being that you are and what has the samsaric afterlife related? Explain your answer.
5. What is reincarnation given your answer to 2 and 4.
6. Try to find out on the Internet how traditional Buddhists react to Batchelor's ideas about the doctrine of reincarnation . What do you think about this and why?
7. Compare and contrast the traditional Western ideas of afterlife and the individual human being to those of Buddhism: similarities?? differences??
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ragashree

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Interesting. Can't you afford to pay to get those college essays written? I hear there are a lot of sites you can go to. :coffee:
 

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Why is the title of this topic spelled incorrectly? Secondly, is the user who posted this suffering from schizophrenia or something similar?

What is the purpose of this thread?
 
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1. What does Buddhism say about human nature?
2. According to Buddhism, is a•human bOeing a thing or a 'process'? Explain your answer in the light of the "Questions of King Melinda".

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So that's how Buddha "transcended" mortality. :rofl1:
 
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