Buddhism is based on the concept of Ahimsa. The founder was Lord Buddha who came during 563-483 BCE. Before him Mahavira and Hinduism also practiced Ahimsa non-violence. non-violence leads to rights living non-living thing. It dividing as Jiva Ajiva in Buddhism. no harm towards animals it vegetarianism. But there are two traditions They Theravada Mahayana One very strict vegetarianism, other on...

study of the works left behind from the pre-islamic culture of iran and the periods after that indicate the fact that growing the hair of one’s head and beard has not been regarded as a negative point. the faces of noble and the common people, the akaemenid kings, and the sasanid clerics indicate that shaving the head and face in the pre-islamic era had been almost unknown, except in some rare ...

A survey (n=276) was carried out to gather information on goat farming systems in three districts in the Southern province of Sri Lanka. The objective was to identify the prospects and constrains to improve the economic productivity of the herds. Goats were ranked highest in population and second in terms of importance to the house hold. Buddhists were dominated in goat rearing while selling of...

This paper queries the logic of the structure of hierarchical philosophical systems. Following the Indian tradition of siddhānta, Tibetan Buddhist traditions articulate a hierarchy of philosophical views. The ‘Middle Way’ philosophy or Madhyamaka—the view that holds that the ultimate truth is emptiness—is, in general, held to be the highest view in the systematic depictions of philosophies in T...

During the past half century, there have been many examples of Buddhist-Christian dialogues in Japan. This article analyzes the dialogue between members of the Risshō Kōsei-kai association and the Focolare Movement, a dialogue that is based on a friendship and a deep spiritual unity that comes from living radically according to one’s own religion and being attentive and open to the other’s. Fro...

works as Gyatso’s narrative strategy to capture her readers’ attention. She thus first places her main protagonist, Desi, and his medical legacy within the broader late seventeenthcentury political world in which he was a key player. She then disentangles the various ‘bones of contention’ and ‘roots of the profession’ that Desi inherited from his medical predecessors. The final chapter on the ‘...

BACKGROUND Implants and drugs with animal and human derived content are widely used in medicine and surgery, but information regarding ingredients is rarely obtainable by health practitioners. A religious perspective concerning the use of animal and human derived drug ingredients has not thoroughly been investigated. The purpose of this study was to clarify which parts of the medical and surgic...

South Korea is the first country to shift from strong son preference preferring daughters. This paper examines factors associated with daughter preference, using data 2012 General Social Survey, a nationally-representative survey of 1,379 people. The outcome variable was derived question, 'If you were have one child, which would like - son, daughter, or no preference?' Multinomial logistic regr...

Our twenty-first century global society is in critical condition, with intertwined symptoms including ecological deterioration verging on ecosystem collapse; polarization of the human community across racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, and other lines, triggering violent conflicts different levels; gross inequality economic status opportunity, many needlessly losing their lives due to hung...