He states that in a past life, Amitābha was once king who renounced his kingdom, and became a bodhisattva monk named Dharmākara (" Dharma Storehouse ").

In accordance with East Asian age reckoning methods, the Dharma Drum Mountain organization states that Sheng Yen died at the age of 80.

WAPT ( Jackson, Mississippi ) TV news producer Dharma Arthur states in Newsweek she lost her job as a result of her booking Borat on a local morning news program.

He states that in a past life, Amitābha was once king who renounced his kingdom, and became a bodhisattva monk named Dharmākara (" Dharma Storehouse ").

It states that all lives are continually reborn until they reach Dharma

Although there are conflicting dates as to when they met ( some sources state that they met in January 1989 at the Satyricon nightclub ), Love stated that the two first encountered one another in January 1988 at a Dharma Bums show where she was doing a spoken word performance, and Erlandson stated that both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Paladium in 1991.

The Dharma is able to bestow timeless and immediate results here and now, through no matter which means of travel, for which there is no need to wait until the future or next existence.

This is why those who practice this Dharma are vegetarians, because they see the slaughter of animals for the purpose of food as violent on the grounds that there are less violent ways to maintain a healthy diet.

When they arrived there, they were greeted by over ten thousand people including Altan Khan dressed in a white robe to symbolize his devotion to the Dharma.

He began speaking in public at the annual Sarva Dharma Sammelan ( Meeting of all faiths ) held at Jabalpur, organised by the Taranpanthi Jain community into which he was born, and participated there from 1951 to 1968.

According to Venerable Hsuan Hua from the tradition of Chinese Buddhism, there are five types of beings who may speak the sutras of Buddhism: a buddha, a disciple of a buddha, a deva, a ṛṣi, or an emanation of one of these beings ; however, they must first receive certification from a buddha that its contents are true Dharma.

" Dharma Realm Buddhist Association purchased the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in 1974 and established its headquarters there.

The expression Three Gems are found in the earliest Buddhist literature of the Pali Canon, besides other works there is one sutta in the Sutta-nipata, called the Ratana-sutta which contains a series of verses on the Jewels in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.

:" The conquest by Dharma has been won here, on the borders, and even six hundred yojanas ( 4, 000 miles ) away, where the Greek king Antiochos ( Antiyoga ) rules, and beyond there where the four kings named Ptolemy ( Turamaya ), Antigonos ( Antikini ), Magas ( Maka ) and Alexander ( Alikasudara ) rule, likewise in the south among the Cholas, the Pandyas, and as far as Tamraparni.

According to Venerable Hsuan Hua from the tradition of Chinese Buddhism, there are five types of beings who may speak the sutras of Buddhism: a buddha, a disciple of a buddha, a deva, a ṛṣi, or an emanation of one of these beings ; however, they must first receive certification from a buddha that its contents are true Dharma.

Though there are some worldly deities who are friendly towards Buddhism and who try to help practitioners, they are not real Dharma Protectors.

:" The conquest by Dharma has been won here, on the borders, and even six hundred yojanas ( 5, 400 – 9, 600 km ) away, where the Greek king Antiochos rules, beyond there where the four kings named Ptolemy, Antigonos, Magas and Alexander rule, likewise in the south among the Cholas, the Pandyas, and as far as Tamraparni ( Sri Lanka ).

He was also a pioneer in the revival of Buddhism in India after it had been virtually extinct there for several centuries, and he was the first Buddhist in modern times to preach the Dharma in three continents: Asia, North America, and Europe.

In 1975, Sri Dharma Mittra suggested that " there are an infinite number of asanas.

However, in the north there was an elder bhikṣu named Pārśva at the time, who saw that if he could convert this ascetic, it would be a great asset to the propagation of the Dharma, so he traveled from northern India, and had the wood-block sounded.

:" The conquest by Dharma has been won here, on the borders, and even six hundred yojanas ( 4, 000 miles ) away, where the Greek king Antiochos rules, beyond there where the four kings named Ptolemy, Antigonos, Magas and Alexander rule, likewise in the south among the Cholas, the Pandyas, and as far as Tamraparni.

According to Po Dharma, there were 150, 000 to 200, 000 Muslims in Cambodia as late as 1975.

Red Dog recruits Dharma as his replacement, but his activities do not end there.

:" The conquest by Dharma has been won here, on the borders, and even six hundred yojanas ( 5, 400 – 9, 600 km ) away, where the Greek king Antiochos rules, beyond there where the four kings named Ptolemy, Antigonos, Magas and Alexander rule, likewise in the south among the Cholas, the Pandyas, and as far as Tamraparni ( Sri Lanka ).

This religion shares aspects of the Tibetan Bön religion, and is often referred to as " Bön ," however there exist significant distinctions between Gurung Dharma and Bön proper.

The city is the backyard for the Singaporeans to get away from their sanitized city to indulge in a spot of anarchy In the central commercial district there is a small Chinese temple in the interior of the old town at Lorong Gambir II, called the Cetiya Satya Dharma.

* Dharma ( Hindu / Buddhist / Sikh term that can be used to mean " duty " or " obligation ", although there are also other meanings )

According to Po Dharma, there were 150, 000 to 200, 000 Muslims in Cambodia as late as 1975.

He remained there for the remainder of his life, succumbing finally to cancer on March 1, 1990 ; he left behind twelve Dharma heirs.

The Buddha of the earliest Buddhists texts describes Dharma ( in the sense of " truth ") as " beyond reasoning " or " transcending logic ", in the sense that reasoning is a subjectively introduced aspect of the way unenlightened humans perceive things, and the conceptual framework which underpins their cognitive process, rather than a feature of things as they really are.

In the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra, the Buddha insists that while pondering upon Dharma is vital, one must then relinquish fixation on words and letters, as these are utterly divorced from liberation and the Buddha-nature.

Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism are called Hindu Dharma, Buddha-Dharma, Jain-Dharma and Sikh dharma, respectively.

For others still, they see the Dharma as referring to the " truth ," or the ultimate reality of " the way that things really are " ( Tib.

The Three Jewels of Buddhism are the Buddha, meaning the mind's perfection of enlightenment, the Dharma, meaning the teachings and the methods of the Buddha, and the Sangha, meaning those awakened beings who provide guidance and support to followers of the Buddha.

Sikh Dharma is a distinct religion revealed through the teachings of ten Gurus who are accepted by the followers as if they were spiritually the same.

# Sikh is bound by Dharma: The followers of this faith are bound by Dharma as advocated in their holy scriptures.

The faithful people are fully bound to do whatever the Dharma wants them to do.

# Deeds are recorded: The persons thoughts and deeds are said to be recorded and the faithful is warned that these will be read out in the presence of the " Lord of Dharma ".

On death, the soul of the person he brought before " Lord of Dharma " are these account are read out as recoded in this quote: " Day and night are the two nurses, in whose lap all the world is at play.

and those followers who " chant the name of the Lord " are cleared as outlined thus: " Her account is cleared by the Righteous Judge of Dharma, when she chants the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

The four truths are presented within the Buddha's first discourse, Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Dharma ( Dharmacakra Pravartana Sūtra ).

These causes of evil behaviour leading to sufferings are called the Fourteen Slanders ( of the Dharma ).

It could be concluded from an emanationism point of view, that all actions and creations by a deity are simply flows of divine energy ( the flowing Tao in conjunction with qi is often seen as a river ; Dharma ( Buddhism ) the law of nature discovered by Buddha has no beginning or end.

In Buddhism, the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha each are described as having certain characteristics.

Dharma, Artha and Kama are aims of everyday life, while Moksha is release from the cycle of death and rebirth.

Hinduism, or Sanatana Dharma ( Dharma means moral duty ), has pivotal virtues that everyone keeping their Dharma is asked to follow, for they are distinct qualities of manusya ( mankind ) that allow one to be in the mode of goodness.