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On Teaching About Buddhism (Part Four)
By
Reed Hall
As I discussed in my previous blog entry, the Buddhist religion maintains that not only is there no eternal Creator God, but also no such thing as an eternal soul. If that is so, many non-Buddhists wonder, then just exactly what reincarnates? The basic Buddhist idea is that the “soul” (or any sort of enduring…
On Teaching About Buddhism (Part Three)
By
Reed Hall
As I discussed in my previous blog entry, the Buddhist religion often stretches the very limits of what some of my students of comparative religion (and other newcomers to Buddhism) are typically used to regarding as some of the absolutely essential, even defining qualities or characteristics of a “religion.” How does a religion function, many…
On Teaching About Buddhism (Part Two)
By
Reed Hall
As I discussed in my previous blog entry, if Hinduism seemed unfamiliar and strange to many of the students in my community college classes who are new to the study of Eastern religions, then Buddhism often seems even stranger, and perhaps in some ways even more challenging. It may even stretch, for some students and…
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