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  • Maitreya is sometimes represented seated on a [[throne]] Western-style, and [[venerated]] both in Mahāyāna and non-Mahāyāna [https://en. Maitreya is a bodhisattva who in the Buddhist [[tradition]] is to appear on [[Earth]], achieve complete [[enlightenment]], and teach
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  • ...merous philosophies, compassion is considered in all the major religious [[tradition]]s as among the greatest of [[virtue]]s. ...]] is that of [[ahimsa]]. The exact definition of ahimsa varies from one [[tradition]] to another. Ahimsa is a [[Sanskrit]] [[word]] which can be translated mos
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  • ...] [[invaders]] from the north and west. At this time only the northern and western portions of the [[peninsula]] had been extensively permeated by the [https: [[Category: Tradition]]
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  • ...hat refers to [[philosophy|philosophical]] thinking in the [[Western world|Western or Occidental world]], as opposed to [[Eastern philosophy|Eastern or Orient ...ically, the term refers to the philosophical thinking of [[Western culture|Western civilization]], beginning with [[Greek philosophy]] in [[ancient Greece]].
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  • ...those who hailed from the [[Orient|Far-Eastern]] and the remote [[Occident|Western countries]]. As a result of these [[contacts]] the lad began to entertain a [[Category: Tradition]]
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  • ...under [[Founding Fathers]]), as an alternative to an intervening [[Western tradition]] of [[absolutism]], claiming absolute authority, as from [[God]] (see [[Di
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  • 195:3.2 [[Rome]] overcame the [[tradition]] of [[nationalism]] by imperial [[universalism]] and for the first time in ...ld's [[history]] for a [[good]] [[religion]] to make [[progress]] in the [[Western world]]. During the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_century first centur
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  • ...'. Pan Macmillan, 2002. ISBN 0-330-48730-2., but it draws on an oracular [[tradition]] that goes back to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic neolithic] tim ...[integrate]] concepts of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_philosophy Western philosophy], as steps toward modernization. By the time of the [https://en.
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  • ...h back into antiquity and which may be described as the Western esoteric [[tradition]]. Its principal ingredients have been identified as Gnosticism, the Hermet ...17th century, these kinds of [[idea]]s that are alternatively described as Western esotericism had a brief revival. Alchemy used to be common among highly imp
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  • ==The Heterodox Tradition in Western Philosophy== There are two (or three) main highways along which western speculation about the
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  • ...e "malignant". Most religious systems have some form of moral dualism - in western religions, for instance, a conflict between [[goodness|good]] and [[evil]]. ...erceives a "self" that is distinct from the rest of the world. In mystic [[tradition]]s such as Zen or Sufism, a key to enlightenment is "transcending" this sor
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  • ...t the end of that century with the division of the empire into Eastern and Western halves under the sons of Theodosios I, Arkadios and Honorius. There is much ...anied by a cultural flowering that is here called “pre-Renaissance” (the [[tradition]]al term is “Komnenian renaissance”). Byz. took substantial steps towar
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  • ...470 BC–399 BC) ancient Greek philosopher credited with the foundation for Western philosophy.]]The '''history of [[philosophy]]''' is the study of philosophi ...[[Modernism|modern]]; [[Eastern hemisphere|Eastern]], [[Western hemisphere|Western]], [[religious]] or [[secular]] — have had their own unique schools of ph
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  • ...e this definition, explaining that a cornerstone of Indian philosophy is a tradition of respect for multiple views: *[[Purva Mimamsa]] (or simply Mimamsa), the tradition of Vedic exegesis, with emphasis on Vedic ritual, and
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  • ...August, September, and October, or possibly a few days later, depending on tradition. In Australia autumn officially begins on 1 March and ends 31 May. The vast ...f the primary [[harvest]], has dominated its themes and popular images. In Western [[cultures]], [[personification]]s of autumn are usually pretty, well-fed [
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  • ..."texts" comprises little more than "books belonging to the [[Western canon|Western literary canon]]." But the principles and methods of literary theory have b ...he [[New Critics]], and de Man was trained in the European [[hermeneutic]] tradition).
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  • "Spirit guide" is a term used by the Western [[tradition]] of Spiritualist Churches, [[mediums]], and psychics to describe an entity
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  • ...ough etymological [[research]] originally grew from the [[philological]] [[tradition]], currently much etymological research is done on language families where ...ndicate former meanings of words to de-center the "violent hierarchies" of Western philosophy.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology]
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  • * understand more truly his or her own religious [[tradition]],<ref>See, e.g., Daniel L. Migliore, ''Faith Seeking Understanding: An Int * understand more truly another religious tradition,<ref>See, e.g., Michael S. Kogan, 'Toward a Jewish Theology of Christianity
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  • ...]] that is not part of an established denomination, church, or religious [[tradition|body]]. ...]s coined to refer to this [[phenomenon]]. The term was adopted in turn by Western scholars as an alternative to the older term [[cult]], which acquired a pej
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