The religious beliefs of people along the Silk Road at the beginning of the 1st century BCE were very different from what they would later become. When China defeated the nomadic Xiongnu confederation ...

She is now Professor of Japanese Religions in the Religion Department of Princeton University ... and traditions related to the Lotus Sūtra, especially Tendai and Nichiren Buddhism.

Respecting and protecting the freedom of religious belief is a fundamental policy of the CPC and the Chinese government. This basic policy means: every Chinese citizen has the freedom to believe ...

This clip could be used as a summary of the main Buddhist beliefs. Pupils could work in pairs to summarise this clip in 100 words, communicating the essential ideas. This clip could form part of a ...

The fundamental point here, of course, is that Confucianism could not exist without Daoism and Buddhism, and East Asian religion and philosophy have been characterized by their syncretic nature ...

When the great King Anawrahta of Pagan united the whole of Burma into a single kingdom in the eleventh century and made Theravada Buddhism the national religion, there were already in existence a ...

With more than 2bn adherents, Christianity is the world’s largest religion and—though it might not always feel like it in the smugly secularising West—is still growing in many regions.

The main religions are Buddhism, Islam, Catholicism and Christianity, China's indigenous Taoism, along with Shamanism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity and the Naxi people's Dongba religion.

Includes instruction in ethical theory, history of ethics, belief and value systems ... and study of one or more of the main branches including Early Buddhism, Hinayana, Theravada, Madhyamaka, ...

Rupert first became interested in Buddhism when studying for a degree in Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester in the late 1970s ... whether Theravada, Tibetan, Chan, Nichiren, etc. Ivy ...

It exploited the Buddhist belief that once a person dies, his body must be buried in the family plot or his soul will wander aimlessly. (01:14) Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing Our ...