Do vampires have any religion or path?
I was wondering if there is anything like an "official" religion that real vampires follow. Like a spiritual path, group of tenets or established dogmas, as in the pagan community where witches follow Wicca and other witchcrafting traditions, mostly drawn

Ancient Chinese Religion
In the Shang Dynasty (about 2000 BC), the earliest period we know much about, people in China worshipped a lot of different gods - weather gods and sky gods - and also a higher god who ruled over the other gods, called Shang-Ti. People who lived during th

does buddhism make you advanced?
This is a quote from another thread, but I thought it's going to be more appropriate to create a new line of discussion... Nielsio wrote:In retrospect it's interesting to see how unadvanced we all were back them (I'm talking about compared to what I'v

My Trouble with Buddhism...
I love Buddhism and its teachings a great deal and have learned a lot and know there is much more still to learn. There is still a great deal of cultural baggage and I'm very curious about its teachings regarding awakening and enlightening and am deeply

more books about Critical Buddhism - mostly coming from Japanese sources
CRITICAL BUDDHISM by James Mark Shields – In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the relative calm world of Japanese Buddhist scholarship was thrown into chaos with the publication of several works by Buddhist scholars Hakamaya Noriaki and Matsumoto Shiro,

Why Religion Ruins HumanLife
In class we have been focusing a lot on not only imperialism but also with religion. Not different types of religions, more like ideas that questioned it and the proof that supported these ideas. Personally, I find it hard to believe that a big man in the

Role of religion in history.
Everyone sees a religion really different. Today and ages ago religion was a huge influence on a lot of history events. Religion suppose to be something good, it suppose to make people realize that there is another people they should care about, that the

If you have any questions about Buddhism, post them here
Hey, I guess maybe a few of you know me, a few of you don't. Anyway, I'm planning to ordain as a Buddhist monk in Thailand in the next couple of months. I've basically stopped posting on all websites (for quite a while), but I still occasionally browse

Was Spiritualism ever meant to be a Religion?
If you think back to the early days of Spiritualism, when communcation started in home circles, I often wonder did Spiritualism ever meant to be a religion, because there is a difference between spirituality and Spiritualism. Was Spiritualism just meant

Buddhism and the Christian meme
What do Buddhists think of Christianity, Islam, and Judeaism? Why do some Buddhists like Thich Nhat Hanh go out of their way to portray the Abrahamic memes as a viable path? http://www.uq.net.au/slsoc/bsq/budchr0.htm#cont

heresy? how does that fit into Buddhism?
Friday ramblings. I'm curious as to how "heresy" is dealt with in the context of Buddhist theory, history, etc. By heresy I mean the standard definition you can find online, such as "religious opinion or doctrine at variance with

Greek religion
The Roman religion was alike the Greek religion. But instead they had a lot of control in everything around them like, storms, the oceans, marriage, and more. They had an important idea for their gods in Latin “do ut des” which means “I give so that you

Loss Buddhism in Java
This is the height and great secret in indonesian spritual, about Buddhism Deva, ghost java vs Wali Muslim. In indonesian can not publication. Why Busshism loss in Java? And Buddhism will come back in Java after 500 years old. Now buddhism coming in

FDR and religion
well, as long as we're back into FDR, this thread (see also the page before that page) about the Philadelphia speaking gig, and the subsequent discussion about FDR'ers (incl. Stef) feelings about religion sure sheds some new light on that old Tyler thread

Quantum Buddhism
Quantum Buddhism is an ideal path for the enthusiast of spirituality & science. Co-founded by Francois Lepine, a Buddhist bishop in the pure land & Vajrayana traditions. Although a modern day enlightened master, and having had some personal contac