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☆☆☆☆☆Nirvana is a term coined by the Buddha, and is said to be the goal of all Buddhists. The Buddha was a Hindu prince, and he was trying to understand the meaning of Moksha. Moksha is liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth. The Buddha, who was earlier prince Siddhartha Gautama, realized that this world is full of dukkha or suffering, and he said that the only way to escape from the cycle of suffering in this life as well as in future lives, when we are reborn after the death of the body, is through Nirvana. Nirvana means escape from rebirth, it means freedom from Karma or our actions. How does one do that? Buddha said we have to go within and switch on the light - what we call Enlightenment. Enlightenment is overcoming ignorance, it is realizing the Truth. Then we attain the state of Nirvana, a state of awareness, of consciousness, of mindfulness. And this leads us to becoming one with the Divine, we escape from coming back to earth.
563 b.C.
Jerusalem
Shabbat starts at sundown Friday night and ends sundown Saturday night, the 7th day of the week.
China
Episcopal
The Church of England IS a protestant church. Of the major denominations in the U.S., the Episcopal is one that split off from the Churchof England in the 18th Century.
Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar
Buddhism
~ Bar Mitzvah.
It's not actually the ceremony; nor does it indicate "full membership" in Judaism. As soon as a Jewish baby is born, it is a full-fledged Jew. When a boy turns 13 years old, he is called a "bar mitzvah" meaning "son of mitzvah". When a Jewish boy becomes a bar mitzvah, it means that he is old enough to be obligated with the religious responsibilities of an adult and this includes being called up to read from the Torah.
The candelabra used during Hanukkah actually holds 9 candles and is called a Hannukiah (Hanukkah-menorah).
zen
about 200 BC until the beginning of the twentieth century....
Eastern Catholic Churches.
The focus of the yin and yang is to find a balance in nature.
Confucius was widely unknown in his own country at the time of his death.
