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Buddhists and do
In Vajrayāna particularly, Tibetan Buddhists subscribe to a voluntary code of self-censorship, whereby the uninitiated do not seek and are not provided with information about it.
However, each branch of Mahayana Buddhism selects which sutra to follow, and some branches, including the majority of Tibetan and Japanese Buddhists, do eat meat, while many Chinese Buddhist branches do not.
The majority of Catholics, Buddhists and nonbelievers practice ancestral rites, although Protestants do not.
Buddhists do not consider Siddhartha Gautama to have been the only Buddha.
Their reasons are that modern day Buddhists, Hindus and others ( a ) do not literally worship " sticks and stones ", as the idolaters in the Tanakh were described doing.
Most Buddhists do acknowledge the existence of gods in Hindu pantheon.
# Bonpos circumambulate chortens or other venerated structures counter-clockwise ( i. e., with the left shoulder toward the object ), rather than clockwise ( as Buddhists do ).
Most Korean American Christians do not practice traditional Confucian ancestral rites practiced in Korea ( in Korea, most Catholics, Buddhists and nonbelievers practice these rites ).
Though a large quantity of Buddhism has been shown in Phimai, evidence such as large pots that were embedded in some corners of the structure suggests that number of spiritual practices other than the ones that Buddhists do has been practiced in Phimai.
Friends do not have to regard themselves as Buddhists, and can be of any faith, or none.
The above lineage was proposed by Buddhists of later times and do not reflect the popularity of the monks at that time.
Many Buddhists at that time felt that the Dharma of the Buddha had declined to such a point that people could not do it themselves anymore, a concept called mappo in Japanese, a Mahayana eschatology that claims that the ability to practice Dharma properly declines over time.
For instance, Buddhists do not believe in a personal deity ; Zoroastrians believe in Ahura Mazda and his nemesis Angra Mainyu, as well as " lesser gods ," many Wiccans believe in two deities ; while Hindus, Asatruar, Hellenists, and Celtic Reconstructionists believe in many.
However, most Buddhists do not pursue skill in meditation or aim for enlightenment.
" ( i. e. God ) thus atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, most Satanists, some Unitarian Universalists and New Age followers, who do not believe in a supreme being would be excluded from public office.
The Jaina traditions seem to draw in part on ancient sources independent of those of the brahmanas, as do the Buddhists also, and are not merely corruptions of Brahmanical traditions.
Due to the understanding of animals as conscious and suffering beings, many Buddhists do not kill animals and many also do not eat meat ( other than that from those who died naturally, and from species where the consumption of brethren is not troubling to the still living ).
The Buddhists also do not follow casteism in society, which is also followed in the Ananda Bazar of Jagannath.
The overall idea of cenobitic monasticism cannot be traced to a single source, however, as many have tried to do in calling Pachomius the " founder " of the tradition, but rather is thanks to the ideas and work of numerous groups, including the aforementioned Melitians, Manichaeans, Elkasites, Buddhists and, of course, the Pachomians.
The Tamang people originally practiced Bonism, or ancestor worship and living in proximity to the Tibetans, became Buddhists when Buddhism spread in Tibet and were one of the earliest communities to do so.
Since most Buddhists do not consider the Buddha to have been a " god ", Jewish Buddhists do not consider Buddhist practice to be " worship ".

Buddhists and worship
" Attributes that are seen as religious — such as ancestor worship, ritual, and sacrifice — were advocated by Confucius as necessary for social harmony ; however, these attributes can be traced to the traditional non-Confucian Chinese beliefs of Chinese folk religion, and are also practiced by Daoists and Chinese Buddhists.
In 2009, places of worship exist for Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and Muslims.
A stupa ( from Sanskrit: m., स ् त ू प, stūpa, Sinhalese: ස ් ථ ූ පය, Pāli: थ ु प " thūpa ", literally meaning " heap ") is a mound-like structure containing Buddhist relics, typically the remains of Buddha, used by Buddhists as a place of worship.
These sites are sacred to the Hindus and some Buddhists worship in these Hindu sites.
The murti is regarded by some Mahayana Buddhists ( e. g. Muktinath ) during worship as a point of devotional and meditational focus.
Here he experienced a shock to find the temple in the hands of a Saivite priest, the Buddha image transformed into a Hindu icon and Buddhists barred from worship.
They are not Buddhists, instead they practice a form of ancestor and spirit worship.
In 1891, while on pilgrimage to the recently restored Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya, the location where Siddhartha Gautama ( the Buddha ) attained enlightenment, Anagarika Dharmapala had experienced a shock to find the temple in the hands of a Saivite priest, the Buddha image transformed into a Hindu icon and Buddhists barred from worship as a result of which he began an agitation movement.
As such, many self-proclaimed " Buddhists " are actually adherents of Chinese folk traditions who visits temples of Chinese folk traditions for worship rather than learning the dharma from Buddhist monasteries.
On pilgrimage to Bodh Gaya in 1891, the Sri Lankan Buddhist leader Anagarika Dharmapala was shocked to find the temple in the hands of a Saivite priest, the Buddha image transformed into a Hindu icon and Buddhists barred from worship.
It is regarded as an " orthodox " Buddhist temple by local Chinese Buddhists, in contrast with some other shrines which worship Buddhist, Taoist, and mystical heroes in the same building.
Subsequently with the rise of Buddhist activists in the 1980s, the pool of worshippers who worship both Taoist deities and Buddha realigned to declare themselves as Buddhists even if they were primarily worshipping Taoist deities ( defined as families which worship Taoist deities at home ).
For instance, the Muktinath Temple is sacred and a common house of worship for both Hindus and Buddhists.
These two religious groups are most commonly associated with her, but persons of many other religions, including Muslims, Buddhists, and indigenous Waraoa Indians have been known to worship the popular saint.
In remarks to members of the Cholsum Congress on March 4, 1996, the Dalai Lama expressed satisfaction that the Congress had passed a resolution addressing the worship of Dorje Shugden, implying that Tibetan Buddhists ignoring his restrictions might hasten his own death, since " then there would not be any point in my continuing to live silently as a disappointed man.
Nearby are the Maijishan Grottoes filled with thousands of Buddhist sculptures, represented by figures as Sakyamuni and Avalokitesvara, produced in as early as the Wei Dynasty and as late as the Song Dynasty by Buddhist monks who first came here via the North Silk Road and, later on, by local Buddhists, for worship purposes.
In addition, many Buddhists ( particularly Theravada Buddhists ) do not " worship " the Buddha but instead " revere " and " express gratitude " for the Buddha's ( and all buddhas ') accomplishment and compassionate teaching ( that is, discovering and teaching the Dharma so others might be released from suffering and achieve Nirvana ).
Many of these Hui worship village gods and do not have Islam as their religion, some are Buddhists, Daoists, followers of Chinese Folk Religions, secularists, and Christians.

Buddhists and Hindu
In addition to shrardha ( the ritual Hindu offerings by the son of deceased ), we find among Hindus widespread adherence to the notion of divine intervention in ones fate, while Buddhists eventually came to propound such theories like boon-granting bodhisattvas, transfer of merit and like.
According to the census of 1998, the religious breakdown of the city was as follows: Muslim ( 96. 45 %); Christian ( 2. 42 %); Hindu ( 0. 86 %); Ahmadiyya ( 0. 17 %); Others ( 0. 10 %) ( Parsis, Sikhs, Bahá ' ís, Jews and Buddhists ).
In the British census of India of 1941, Kashmir registered a Muslim majority population of 77 %, a Hindu population of 20 % and a sparse population of Buddhists and Sikhs comprising the remaining 3 %.
Temple Buddhist Center, the Rime Buddhist Center and other Buddhist facilities serve Buddhists in the city, while the Hindu Cultural Center and Vedanta Society of Kansas City serve Kansas City's Hindu population.
During his time, the Buddhists wreaked vengeance on the Hindu Brahmins ( especially the followers of Shaivism ) for the harm they had received earlier from Shankaracharya.
This can lead to the opinion that Buddhists have adopted religious elements from Hindu traditions in their religious practices.
According to the 2001 Nepal Census, there are 52, 237 Chepang in the country, of which 70. 23 % were Hindu, 18. 75 % were Buddhists and 8. 78 % were Christians.
Helmuth von Glasenapp attributed these developments to a Hindu desire to absorb Buddhism in a peaceful manner, both to win Buddhists to Vaishnavism and also to account for the fact that such a significant heresy could exist in India.
The second largest group have no religion ( 19. 4 %), third largest being Hindu ( 1. 1 %), fourth largest is Muslim ( 0. 7 %) followed by Buddhists ( 0. 3 %) and other religions ( 0. 3 %), followed by Jewish ( 0. 2 %) and Sikh ( 0. 2 %) populations.
Religion in Laos is highly syncretic, and has drawn from three primary sources, although most Lao people claim to be Theravada Buddhists, many traditions are derived from Hindu and Buddhist practises.
Phanom Rung Fair ( งานประเพณ ี ข ึ้ นเขาพนมร ุ้ ง ): Phanom Rung Sanctuary was once a sacred Hindu shrine which was later changed into a religious site for Buddhists.
In other words Phimai has always been an important religious landmark for Animists, Buddhists, and Hindu Cults.
Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists come under Hindu law, whereas Muslims and Christians have their own laws.
These accounts at least indicate that Indian religious men ( Sramanas, to which the Buddhists belonged, as opposed to Hindu Brahmanas ) were visiting Mediterranean countries.
Many Hindu gods are likewise worshipped by Burmese Buddhists, including Saraswati ( known as Thuyathadi in Burmese ), the goddess of knowledge, who is often worshipped before examinations.
He is one of the most important deities of Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Nepal who originated in Hindu mythology and is sacred to Hindus, Buddhists and Jains alike.
Saraswati is a Hindu Deva from Gandahara, Pakistan and the kami are considered to be local, Japanese bodhisattvas by many Japanese Buddhists ).
Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists are also covered by Hindu law.
Buddhist temples and monasteries were either destroyed or taken over for use in Hindu practices, thus undermining the ability of the Buddhists to propagate their beliefs.

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