“Rifles, Blankets, and Beads” delivers an entertaining perspective on the Northern Athapaskan village of Tanacross. This book is an outstanding resource for anthropologists, students, and educators. In reviewing this book, the author brings a descriptive writing style when analyzing the Northern Athapaskan village of Tanacross culture and history with a focus on the potlatch giving us insight details how the potlatch celebrated among the Tanacross people. The author, William E. Simeone, is a great source for the Northern Athapaskan village of Tanacross because he lived there among the people. In addition to living there he also attended ceremonies in both Tanacross and surrounding villages, and participated in potlatches within the villages.
The documentary The Split Horn: The Life of a Hmong Shaman in America details the lives, rituals, and beliefs of the Hmong (Meo) shaman and the Hmong communities after relocating to the United States. While watching Split Horn, the contrasting ways in which the elders and the children adapt their religion and their lives to a new environment seem particularly relevant and especially memorable. Through the passage of time, Hmong elders and shamans struggle to maintain their significance in a vastly different world than the hills of Laos while their children convert to Christianity, get married, and have children. For the Hmong shamans, religious gift and magic bonds families and communities together, a dynamic that becomes increasingly strained
Ashoka cared for the welfare of his people, an important quality that any leader should have. According to Document C, Ashoka gave gifts to the poor and taught communities
And Asoka found enlightenment that day, Asoka was forever a changed man. Document C reads, ' ' A rejection of the path of violence... he gave rich gifts to the poor...consulted local communities about proper goverment". Asoka did for his people once he found inner peace.
He found a Buddhist monk who guided him to enlightenment. This shows that Asoka was not only enlightened spiritually, but as a leader too. Asoka had gone out of his way to change his faith so he could discontinue what he realized was wrong. Finally, he not only changed his faith and mindset but also worked tremendously hard to be forgiven. According to Wood, Asoka had also given “rich gifts to the poor'' while on a path of nonviolence (Document C).
Archeologists have found what might be a skull bone from the venerated Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. The bone was covered up inside a model of a stupa, or a Buddhist place of worship utilized for contemplation. The exploration group found the 1,000-year-old model inside a stone mid-section in a sepulcher underneath a Buddhist sanctuary in Nanjing, China. Inside the stupa model archeologists found the remaining parts of Buddhist holy people, including a parietal (skull) bone that engravings say had a place with the Buddha himself.
The Buddha, who is the origin of Buddhism, had to face
Throughout humanity, we undergo standoffs amongst the issues of ignorance we find within our deepest cores. To be knowledgeable, is to be within understanding. Can someone show enough humility to own up to their wrong comprehension? When we come to an unknown idea or object there is a moment of denial, a rush of fear. And there is a fight or flight thought rumbling in the mind.
Siddhartha was confident he would find his true desire. Along with this journey, Siddhartha encounters many people/groups who try to teach him enlightenment, but he did not realize the suffering that would go along with this trip. As the
When things did not seem to be changing for this young man he decided to leave home looking for something better and a chance to help others. Siddhartha Guatama had a vision come to him called The Four Noble Truths, that would
where many follow and do rituals for all those people who were in the war and lost their lives on both sides. not only with those who fought but at his side but the enemy as well. for all the things that he had lived in the time of war for him was very torturing, and did not let him be at peace with himself. He will be bemused by his discovery of the almost total suppression of Buddhism in India, but the recital of a sutra by the side of the Ganges brings him a kind of peace to his
Upagupta and Pursuing the Good Aristotle, in The Nicomachean Ethics, said that “achieving the good is more than being happy, it is to realize in your public life some form of excellence of virtue that is moral (Ethics). In the Asokavadana, Upagupta, as the Buddha, achieves pursuing the good by helping others and spreading the Truths. In the first paragraph of the prologue, it says that the Buddha made sacrifices out of compassion practiced austerities for the well-being of the world (173). The first impression we get of the Buddha is one of caring and compassion for others, which is a resounding theme throughout this story.
Guatemala is one of the countries in Central America that has spectacular Mayan ruins and a diverse Mayan heritage communities. Local Mayan heritage has been preserving the culture of their ancestors after many years. Local indigenous community near Tecpan have been coming to a nearby Mayan site known as Iximche’ to perform spiritual rituals. Despite many racism and civil war that Guatemala; the indigenous community have been embracing their culture heritage. Iximche’ is a Post-Classic Maya site that has been really important to the local indigenous community because it allows them to continue preserving the Maya culture alive for future generations by enabling present community to open a link channel to perform ceremonies as their ancestors
outlook.’’ He critiques Kant’s thought by observing ‘‘every action explicitly calls for a particular content and a specific end, while duty as abstraction entails nothing of the kind.’’ (Hegel Philosophy of Right 134) Hegel contends that the only way Kant can possibly deduce a particular duty is if Kant already accepted certain existing moral opinions or customs as justifiable. For example, it is certainly a contradictory maxim to accept a deposit that is entrusted to me without planning to return it, but it is only contradictory, according to Hegel, if we first accept the notion of property.
The Asuka period brought the gradual growth of artistic and religious influences on Japanese culture from China. This influence grew even more during the Nura period as the Japanese began to model itself after the Chinese form and Buddhism spread through Japan. One example is the Triad, which was kept in the Yakushiji temple. The Chinese influence was apparent in its anatomical definition, realistic drapery, and naturalism. The Chinese influence in Buddhism thought and art was founded by Kukai, who traveled to China and studied Chinese Buddhism, also studied their calligraphy and poetry.
