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What is Buddhism

Chapter 19
Handbook of Research on Cultivating Literacy in Diverse and Multilingual Classrooms
An East-Asian religious and philosophical school found by Siddhartha Gautama – The Buddha (ca. 560 – 480 BCE) in northern India whose full title is Shakyamuni Buddha. Several centuries after the death of its founder, Buddhism spread across other Asian nations and has become one of the major religions in this region.
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East-Asian Philosophical Concepts as Analytical Framework for Interpreting Non-Western Images in Children's Picturebooks
Ngoc Tai Huynh (University of Tasmania, Australia), Angela Thomas (University of Tasmania, Australia), and Vinh Thi To (University of Tasmania, Australia)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2722-1.ch019
Abstract
In contemporary Western cultures, picturebooks are a mainstream means for young children to first attend to print and start learning to read. The use of children's picturebooks has been reported as supporting intercultural awareness in children. Multiliteracies researchers suggest that other theoretical frameworks should be applied in addition to the semiotic approach of interpreting picturebooks, especially picturebooks from non-Western cultures. This chapter theorizes how Eastern philosophical concepts influence the meaning-making potential of illustrations in Eastern picturebooks. To do this, the authors first discuss the cultural constraints when applying a contemporary semiotic framework in analyzing non-Western images. The authors introduce a framework developed based on philosophical concepts that have influenced East-Asian art forms, particularly that of painting, to understand the Eastern artistic traditions. The chapter demonstrates how to apply this framework for interpretation of non-Western images to working with multicultural picturebooks.
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Chapter 14
Tawakkul as an Islamic Morality Concept: Based on Islamic-Turkish Texts
A religion that originally comes from South Asia, and teaches that personal spiritual improvement will lead to escape from human suffering.
Published in Chapter: Tawakkul as an Islamic Morality Concept: Based on Islamic-Turkish Texts; From: Global Perspectives on Value Education in Primary School
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Robot Double: Hiroshi Ishiguro’s Reflexive Machines
A widespread Asian religion or philosophy, founded by Siddhartha Gautama.
Published in Chapter: Robot Double: Hiroshi Ishiguro’s Reflexive Machines; From: Handbook of Research on Technoself: Identity in a Technological Society
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Chapter 32
Privacy, Contingency, Identity, and the Group
A world religion founded by Siddhartha Gautama more than 2,500 years ago in northern India. Gautama achieved the ultimate realization into the nature of reality and thus became the ‘Buddha,’ literally ‘one who is awaken.’ The goal of Buddhism is to achieve Enlightenment, or nirvana , a state of total bliss unspoiled by suffering. Buddhism teaches that the individual self is a construct and is not there ultimately in reality.
Published in Chapter: Privacy, Contingency, Identity, and the Group; From: Handbook of Research on Technoethics
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Mystical Tibet Today: Growing Tourist Route for Buddhist Religion and Knowledge Seekers and Pilgrims
It is a world religion that has no concept of a Creator God. It is called “inner religion” or “religion of the inner world.”
Published in Chapter: Mystical Tibet Today: Growing Tourist Route for Buddhist Religion and Knowledge Seekers and Pilgrims; From: Global Development of Religious Tourism
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Chapter 57
Fundamentals of Learning Theories
Buddhism is a dharmic, nontheistic religion, a philosophy, and a system of psychology. Buddhism is also known in Sanskrit or Pali, the main ancient languages of Buddhists, as Buddha Dharma or Dhamma, which means the teachings of “the Awakened One.” Thus was called Siddhartha Gautama, hereinafter referred to as “the Buddha.” Early sources say that the Buddha was born in Lumbini (now in Nepal), and that he died aged around 80 in Kushinagar (India). He lived in or around the fifth century BCE, according to recent scholarship. Buddhism spread throughout the Indian subcontinent in the five centuries following the Buddha’s passing, and thence into Central, Southeast, and East Asia and Eastern Europe over the next two millennia.
Published in Chapter: Fundamentals of Learning Theories; From: Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration
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