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	A Basic Buddhism Guide: Differences From Other Religions.
		Samsara is a fundamental concept in Buddhism and it is simply the 'perpetual cycles of existence' or endless rounds of rebirth among the six realms of existence.
		In Buddhism, the ultimate objective of followers/practitioners is enlightenment and/or liberation from Samsara; rather than to go to a Heaven (or a deva realm in the context of Buddhist cosmology).
		Buddhism is strictly not a religion in the context of being a faith and worship owing allegiance to a supernatural being.
	www.buddhanet.net /e-learning/snapshot01.htm

	Samsara
		The basic idea that there is a cycle of birth and rebirth is, however, not questioned in early Buddhism and its successors, and neither is, generally, the concept that samsara is a negative condition to be abated through religious practice concluding in the achievement of final nirvana.
		Samsara is derived from saṃ¡Ìsṛ, "to flow together," to go or pass through states, to wander.
		According to several strands of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, the division of samsara and nirvana is attacked using an argument that extends some of the basic premises of anatta and of Buddha's attack on orthodox accounts of existence.
	www.thaiexotictreasures.com /samsara.html (545 words)

	Buddhism on Encyclopedia.com
		With this distinctive view of cause and effect, Buddhism accepts the pan-Indian presupposition of samsara, in which living beings are trapped in a continual cycle of birth-and-death, with the momentum to rebirth provided by one's previous physical and mental actions (see karma).
		Buddhism, which denied both the efficacy of Vedic ritual and the validity of the caste system, and which spread its teachings using vernacular languages rather than Brahmanical Sanskrit, was by far the most successful of the heterodox or non-Vedic systems.
		Buddhism has largely disappeared from its country of origin, India, except for the presence there of many refugees from the Tibet region of China and a small number of converts from the lower castes of Hinduism.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Buddhism.asp (2407 words)

	Samsara - Definition
		Samsara, in Buddhism, is the opposite of Nirvana.
		Buddhists believe that Samsara is the world of passion; attachment to people and things; multiplicity and differentiation.
		My Samsara is also about passion, attachment to people and things, multiplicity and differentiation.
	www.samsara.ca /ethos/samsara/samsara.htm (195 words)

	Buddhism - Rebirth and Nirvana
		A primary aim of Buddhism is to break free of the wheel of samsara, and to reach a new level called Nirvana.
		Buddhists understand life as samsara, meaning perpetual wandering, and describe the transition like a billiard ball hitting another billiard ball.
		Reincarnation implies the transfer of an essence, or a soul, while rebirth follows the law of causality, or dependant origination, where this arises because of circumstances which happened before.
	www.acay.com.au /~silkroad/buddha/p_nirvana.htm (371 words)

	Samsara
		The goal became not an eternity in a blissful afterlife, but moksha, or "liberation" from samsara.This quest for liberation is the hallmark of the Upanishads and forms the fundamental doctrine of both Buddhism and Jainism.
		The material world, on the other hand, was a place fragmented and constantly changing; this changing aspect of the universe came to be called samsara.
		During the period in which the Upanishads were written, Hindu philosophers began to develop the concept of samsara in line with other aspects of Upanishadic thought.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/GLOSSARY/SAMSARA.HTM (257 words)

	Japanese Buddhism Photo Dictionary - Six States of Existence (Samsara; Sanskrit)
		Among Buddhists, all living beings are born into one of the six states of existence (Samsara in Sanskrit, the cycle of life and death).
		It can also refer to the "flame of death." The death of the Historical Buddha, for example, is referred to as "the Great Extinction." But in general parlance, nirvana means heaven, the ultimate state, the final goal of those who practice Buddhism.
		Only those who attain enlightenment, the Bosatsu (Mahayana), the Rakans (Theravada), and the Nyorai (Tathagata or Buddha, in both traditions) are free from the cycle of birth and death, the cycle of suffering, the cycle of samsara.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/six-states.shtml (2536 words)

	and then they were alone.
		Notes: Samsara (in Buddhism): the process of coming into existence as a differentiated, mortal creature.
		Neither of them did, but Sam made it happen and now it’s blown up in their faces, quietly, with words scattered all around them like the uncomfortable feeling that strangles him whenever he walks into Sam’s office and doesn’t feel him there.
		The West Wing belongs to Aaron Sorkin, blah blah blah.
	oro.incipience.net /samsara.htm (385 words)

	Buddhism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		With this distinctive view of cause and effect, Buddhism accepts the pan-Indian presupposition of samsara, in which living beings are trapped in a continual cycle of birth-and-death, with the momentum to rebirth provided by one’s previous physical and mental actions (see karma).
		Buddhism, which denied both the efficacy of Vedic ritual and the validity of the caste system, and which spread its teachings using vernacular languages rather than Brahmanical Sanskrit, was by far the most successful of the heterodox or non-Vedic systems.
		Buddhism has largely disappeared from its country of origin, India, except for the presence there of many refugees from the Tibet region of China and a small number of converts from the lower castes of Hinduism.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bu/Buddhism.html (1608 words)

	Buddhism
		Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche was one of the principal lamas in the Nyingmapa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
		Buddhism is based on the Three Jewels or Pillars -- the Buddha, the Dharma (his teachings and wisdom) and the Sangha (the community of Buddhists).
		There is only one source of refuge free from all the limitations of samsara, complete with all the qualities of ultimate realization, and possessing the limitless compassion that can respond universally to the needs of sentient beings and lead them all the way to enlightenment: the Three Jewels.
	www.fiftythings.com /buddhism.html (1608 words)

	Buddhism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		With this distinctive view of cause and effect, Buddhism accepts the pan-Indian presupposition of samsara, in which living beings are trapped in a continual cycle of birth-and-death, with the momentum to rebirth provided by one’s previous physical and mental actions (see karma).
		Buddhism, which denied both the efficacy of Vedic ritual and the validity of the caste system, and which spread its teachings using vernacular languages rather than Brahmanical Sanskrit, was by far the most successful of the heterodox or non-Vedic systems.
		Buddhism has largely disappeared from its country of origin, India, except for the presence there of many refugees from the Tibet region of China and a small number of converts from the lower castes of Hinduism.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bu/Buddhism.html (1608 words)

	Buddhism on Encyclopedia.com
		With this distinctive view of cause and effect, Buddhism accepts the pan-Indian presupposition of samsara, in which living beings are trapped in a continual cycle of birth-and-death, with the momentum to rebirth provided by one's previous physical and mental actions (see karma).
		Buddhism, which denied both the efficacy of Vedic ritual and the validity of the caste system, and which spread its teachings using vernacular languages rather than Brahmanical Sanskrit, was by far the most successful of the heterodox or non-Vedic systems.
		Buddhism has largely disappeared from its country of origin, India, except for the presence there of many refugees from the Tibet region of China and a small number of converts from the lower castes of Hinduism.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Buddhism.asp (2320 words)

	20th WCP: Comparative studies for philosophy of Life of Christianity and Chinese Buddhism
		Both in Christianity and Buddhism, the final goal of life directs at the eternal happiness after man's death (in Buddhism, it means being free from samsara ; in Christianity, it means returning to paradise).
		Buddhism, starting from its basic teaching "arising through causation (Pratityasamutpada)", believes that all things are naturally formed from causes and condition (Hetupratyaya), man is also the combination from Five Classifications (Pancaskandha), under given conditions and the result of ignorance (Avidya).
		Chinese Philosophy not only is the fruit of thinking of the Chinese nation, but also is the important component part of world culture.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Comp/CompHong.htm (856 words)

	Atman in Sunyata and the Sunyata of Atman [Buddha's World]
		Atman is consciousness absolutely purged of all factual specificities---everything that consciousness accumulates during its involvement with the empirical world or Samsara.
		Whereas the former school of thought is credited with the belief in the existence of the Atman or the soul as the core reality of the human individual, the latter school is famous for the theory of Anatman or denial of the existence of any self or soul substance.
		Interestingly, Nishitani turns to "The I-Thou Relation in Zen Buddhism" and analyzes the nature of this relation in a manner which is strikingly Vedantic.
	www.katinkahesselink.net /tibet/atmsun.htm (856 words)

	Buddhism Page - Welcome to Sri Lanka by Ari Withanage
		Buddhism defines reality in terms of cause-and-effect relations, thus accepting the doctrine common to Indian religions of samsara, or bondage to the repeating cycle of births and deaths according to one's physical and mental actions.
		Although Buddhism in India largely died out between the 8th and 12th centuries AD, resurg ence on a small scale was sparked by the conversion of 3.5 million former members of the untouchable caste, under the leadership of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, beginning in 1956.
		Buddhism was greatly strengthened in the 3d century B.C. by the support of the Indian emperor Asoka, but it declined in India in succeeding centuries and was virtually extinct there by the 13th century., while it spread and flourished in
	withanage.tripod.com /buddhism.htm (856 words)

	Tara Puja
		Temporarily Tara saves us from the dangers of rebirth in the three lower realms, and ultimately she saves us from the dangers of samsara and solitary peace.
		Tara is a female Buddha, a manifestation of the ultimate wisdom of all the Buddhas.
		The Tara Puja, Liberation from Sorrow, which includes a special prayer Praises to the Twenty-one Taras composed by Buddha, is performed regularly at Kadampa Buddhist centers worldwide.
	www.kadampatemples.org /english/practice/tara.php (384 words)

	Tara - Land of Medicine Buddha - A Center for Healing & Developing a Good Heart
		Usually Tara connotes liberating or releasing us from the suffering of the three lower realms, the general sufferings of samsara and the bondage of nirvana, the blissful state of peace.
		All 21 Taras have one face and two hands: in there right hands, upon the palm of their girt-bestowing gestures, the hold the flasks that accomplish their various active functions, and with their left hands they hold a lotus flower.
		Tara is the female Buddha of Enlightened Activity of which there are 4 types: pacifying, increasing, overpowering and wrathful.
	www.medicinebuddha.org /tara.htm (2715 words)

	Buddhism - Rebirth and Nirvana
		A primary aim of Buddhism is to break free of the wheel of samsara, and to reach a new level called Nirvana.
		Nirvana is the most misunderstood term in Buddhism.
		Reincarnation implies the transfer of an essence, or a soul, while rebirth follows the law of causality, or dependant origination, where this arises because of circumstances which happened before.
	www.acay.com.au /~silkroad/buddha/p_nirvana.htm (371 words)

	Brian Hafer’s Homepage - Deity Yoga
		“Buddhism, Schools of: Hinayana Buddhism” in Eliade, Mircea (editor).
		Philosophically, it was claimed that the Hinayana notion of Buddhist practice reified samsara and nirvana.
		Not all the schools of Buddhism accept the doctrine of tathagatagarbha.
	bhafer.home.comcast.net /deityyoga.html (371 words)

	Ozark Zendo - Ozark Zen Center - Fayetteville AR - Welcome to the Ozark Zen Center
		Moreover, in Eastern and Northern Buddhism, the term 'Hinayana' came to be mostly used to refer to the lower level of spiritual motivation and practice which prepared for the Mahayana level.
		The "new" school of thought taught several doctrines slightly different from the original teachings — including the idea that it may be the duty of an Enlightened One to forego the transcendence of rebirth in order to return to samsara and teach others as a "Boddhisattva" (very slightly similar to a "saint").
		As early Buddhism grew, a movement within the religion took hold that allowed the possibility of enlightened teachings beyond those believed attributable to The Buddha himself.
	ozarkzen.org /mahathera.html (371 words)

	GoL Temple Definitions, Premisses and Info Engaged Buddhism
		In the Engaged Tradition of Buddhism it may be said that, "Contrary to the stated goal of some other currently popular eastern religions and practices, the Dhamma is not concerned with the attainment of a state of "non-dualism," a condition in which the barriers between "self" and "other," or samsara and nibbana, finally dissolve".
		Engaged Buddhism - When used in reference to a MetaPhysical Orientation as to Tradition, Culture or Preferred Flavour, is primarily defined, usually selfdefined by it's members and/or adherents as such, and holding the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, and/or interpolations thereon as a primary or critical parameter of their Spiritual Paradigm.
		Some popular interpretations of Buddhism espouse the notion that our highest goal should be to expand our capacity to open ourselves to the full range of life's joys and sorrows, to shed our self-centered preferences, and merge at last with the unity of all beings and all things.
	www.gardenoflifetemple.com /02WhoWeAre/DefnEngaged.html (371 words)

	AllRefer.com - bodhisattva (Buddhism) - Encyclopedia
		The bodhisattva does not aspire to leave the round of birth-and-death (samsara) before all beings are saved; he is thus distinguished from the arahant of earlier Buddhism, who allegedly seeks nirvana only for himself and who, according to Mahayana teaching, has an inferior spiritual attainment.
		The spiritual path of the bodhisattva is the central teaching of Mahayana Buddhism.
		The practice of a bodhisattva consists of the six "perfections" or paramitas: charity (dana), morality (sila), forbearance (ksanti), diligence (virya), meditation (dhyana), and wisdom (prajna).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/bodhisat.html (283 words)

	buddha16
		Response: I was told by a professor of Buddhism recently that three concepts, taken from the Sramana Movement (circa 800 BCE to 20 CE), survived from the traditional Vedic Movement into Buddhism: Rebirth, Samsara, and Karma.
		I'm suggesting that Buddhism is a subset of Hinduism (those traditions that arose within the geography of the Indus Valley Region) in the same sense that one might consider Christianity a subset of Paganism (albeit adversarial toward its competitors).
		I'm suggesting >that Buddhism is a subset of Hinduism (those traditions that arose within >the geography of the Indus Valley Region) in the same sense that one might >consider Christianity a subset of Paganism (albeit adversarial toward its >competitors).
	www.dorje.com /netstuff/dharma/buddha16 (283 words)

	ZEN BUDDHISM
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		ZEN, WOMEN AND BUDDHISM: Zen, the Tao and Buddhism from the women's perspective.
		Zen master Mu-nan gave Shoju his sacred book on Zen that had been passed down through seven generations of masters.
	www.geocities.com /the_wanderling/zen_enlightenment5.html (402 words)

	Vedanta and Buddhism
		The follower of Pali Buddhism, however, hopes by complete abandoning of all corporeality, all sensations, all perceptions, all volitions, and acts of consciousness, to realize a state of bliss which is entirely different from all that exists in the Samsara.
		The Vedanta tries to establish an Atman as the basis of everything, whilst Buddhism maintains that everything in the empirical world is only a stream of passing Dharmas (impersonal and evanescent processes) which therefore has to be characterized as Anatta, i.e., being without a persisting self, without independent existence.
		Its frequent use in Buddhism is accounted for by the Buddhist' characteristic preference for negative nouns.
	www.accesstoinsight.org /lib/bps/wheels/wheel002.html (402 words)

	Dharma Memphis - Buddhism
		Buddhism has referred to it as the "identity of samsara and nirvana." From this point of view zazen is not a "method" that brings people living in ignorance (avidya) to the "goal" of liberation; rather it is the immediate expression and actualization of the perfection present in every person at every moment.
		Buddhism is a philosophy of life expounded by Gautama Buddha ("Buddha" means "enlightened one"), who lived and taught in northern India in the 6th Century B.C. The Buddha was not a god and the philosophy of Buddhism does not entail any theistic world-view.
		The goal of Buddhism is to escape this REPEATING ILL that has arisen, this repeating rebirth and reforming, via the destruction of the "craving" for senses and sensations of the senses, for rebecoming as this or that, for delusion and for ignorance.
	www.dharmamemphis.com /buddhism (5909 words)

	Brief History
		Buddhism acts as a philosophy that regulates a persons place in the world, and the universe.
		In general, Buddhism is a practice of finding peace within oneself.
		This world, or Samsara, was an illusion designed by Mara an evil spirit that tries to keep souls away from wisdom and the Dharma.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /as/students/vb/history.htm (477 words)

	The Reincarnation FAQ
		An Overview of Buddhism by Pat Zukeran, covering the origins of Buddhism, the concepts of Karma, Samsara, and Nirvana plus a comparison with Christianity.
		The goal of the student of Buddhism is the same as the goal of the student of Yoga - to achieve enlightenment and break the cycle of reincarnation.
		Karma and Reincarnation according to eastern teachers, Hinduism, Taoism and Buddhism.
	www.geocities.com /richard_holmes/reincarnation/faq.htm (477 words)

	The Origin of the Traditional Buddhist Practices
		Myanmar considered worshipping nats and Hindu Gods is to gain mundane benefits, which is separate from the practicing Buddhism to gain liberation from the cycle of rebirth, samsara.
		That was why in Theravada Buddhism, we share merit with all sentient beings of all realms to appease them and live in harmony with them.
		Dhammapada is the original bible of Buddhism –
	home.earthlink.net /~mpaw1237/id43.html (4546 words)

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