Firstly, he fought for the people to embrace modern geography, among other sciences considered “ Western .” Secondly he sought reform in Buddhism and, as a result, a new sect was created in Siamese Theravada Buddhism.

This pagoda combines a Chinese octagonal base with a middle tier of Thai design, and a Burmese crown ; reflecting the temple's embrace of both Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism.

Chandragupta Maurya's embrace of Jainism increased social and religious renewal and reform across his society, while Ashoka's embrace of Buddhism has been said to have been the foundation of the reign of social and political peace and non-violence across all of South Asia.

In the United States I have seen people who embrace Buddhism and change their clothes!

If they adhered to mainstream faiths, hippies were likely to embrace Buddhism, Unitarian Universalism, Hinduism and the restorationist Christianity of the Jesus Movement.

Many traditions of Eastern religions ( Buddhism and Jainism ) embrace the doctrine of ahimsa ( non-violence ) which imposes vegetarianism and outlaws animal as well as human sacrifice.

Sonam Gyatso's message was that the time had come for Mongolia to embrace Buddhism, that from that time on there should be no more animal sacrifices, the images of the old gods were to be destroyed, there must be no taking of life, animal or human, military action must be given up and the immolation of women on the funeral pyres of their husbands must be abolished.

Many of the Nakhi embrace the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, resulting from the presence of the eighth and the tenth Karmapas in the Lijiang area during the fourteenth century.

Chandragupta Maurya's embrace of Jainism increased social and religious renewal and reform across his society, while Ashoka's embrace of Buddhism has been said to have been the foundation of the reign of social and political peace and non-violence across all of India.

Sonam Gyatso's message was that the time had come for Mongolia to embrace Buddhism, that from that time on there should be no more animal sacrifices, the images of the old gods were to be destroyed, there must be no taking of life, animal or human, military action must be given up and the immolation of women on the funeral pyres of their husbands must be abolished.

Another popular Dalit leader, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati, has said that she and her followers will embrace Buddhism after the BSP forms a government at the Centre.

While only occasionally delving into explicitly religious themes, Bishop's personal Christian faith — wide enough to embrace references to Buddhism, Sufism and other creeds — shines through in every tale.

Aiun-ken Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle ( born 11 November 1898 in Gut Externbrock near Nieheim, Westphalia ; died 7 July 1990 in Münster, Westphalia ) was a German Jesuit priest and one of the foremost teachers to embrace both Roman Catholic Christianity and Zen Buddhism.

Mahinda subsequently gave two public talks sanctioned by Devanampiyatissa, in the Royal Hall and in the Nandana garden in the Royal Park, leading to the start of the public embrace of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.

On the other hand, the Thakali, who had traditionally played an important role in the Nepali society but yet retained Tibetan Buddhism, have begun to embrace Hinduism as well in the recent years.

However the Western world will embrace Buddhism.

The 3-part film adaptation and recollection of the original TV series and met rather wide success in Japan, with the omission of Scirocco's crippling mind attack and the movie ending with Kamille and Fa in a long embrace at the conflict's conclusion.

By the late 1980s, Petra used a change in vocalists to embrace a guitar-based hard rock style similar to Def Leppard, Aerosmith and Journey — a style that, along with the growing popularity of Christian rock as a whole, led to Petra's greatest success.

*" The members of the METU community are reliable, responsible and honourable people who embrace only the success and recognition they deserve, and act with integrity in their use, evaluation and presentation of facts, data and documents.

Despite his success at the Chestnut Street Church, Simpson was frustrated by their reluctance to embrace this burden for wider evangelistic endeavor.

Suds McDuff boosts sales of Duff Beer, and the family's fortunes explode, causing Homer to embrace Suds for his success.

While remaining aloof from him as a kinsman and doing nothing to embrace him personally or advance him socially, the uncle does give Clyde a job and ultimately advances him to a position of relative importance within the factory.

On other issues he was more moderate, being a member of the Tory Campaign for Homosexual Equality for a time ( he resigned over a controversial article which suggested that Prince Charles should embrace Prince Edward in order to advance their campaign ).

Asking his followers to embrace the traditions of what he referred to as Mon-Khmer ' holy warriors ' ( yuthesel ), he also encouraged them to refer to him as their " Black Papa ", a name referring to the dark skin considered to be the sign of an ' authentic ' Khmer.

In the same report, Ribbentrop advised Hitler to abandon the idea of a British alliance, and instead embrace the idea of an alliance of Germany, Japan, and Italy, to destroy the British Empire.

Richard convinces several of the Bandakar to shed their ideals and embrace the individualist ideas espoused by Richard and his D ' Haran Empire.

The widest limits given, viz., the irruption of the Visigoths over the boundaries of the Roman Empire, for the beginning, and the middle of the sixteenth century, for the close, may be taken as inclusively sufficient, and embrace, beyond dispute, every movement or phase of history that can be claimed as properly belonging to the Middle Ages.

These traditions survive in part because the Bambara were one of the last cultures in the area to embrace Islam, after the fall of the Bambara Empire in the late 19th century.

Aluk or Aluk To Dolo a sect of Agama Hindu Dharma as a part of religion in Indonesia, within the Toraja society and the people of Tana Toraja, embrace religious rituals such as the funeral ceremony where a sacred cockfight is an integral part of the religious ceremony and considered sacred within that spiritual realm.

Hindu Kodavas, Nairs and Mangalorean Catholics who refused to embrace Islam were imprisoned into such dungeons.

Rudra Singha ( reign 1696 to 1714 ) was a devout Hindu and as he grew older he decided to formally embrace the religion and become an orthodox Hindu by being initiated or taking sharan of a Guru, who would teach him the mantras and become his spiritual guide.

) circumstances to help people become followers of Jesus and remain within their Buddhist, Hindu or Jewish contexts … rather than resolving the paradox via pronouncements on the eternal destiny of people more convinced by or loyal to other religions than ours, we simply move on … To help Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, and everyone else experience life to the full in the way of Jesus ( while learning it better myself ), I would gladly become one of them ( whoever they are ), to whatever degree I can, to embrace them, to join them, to enter into their world without judgment but with saving love as mine has been entered by the Lord ( A Generous Orthodoxy, 260, 262, 264 ).

His grandfather was a Svetambara Jain while his father had great respect for Islam, and he even fasted and prayed like Muslims, but did not embrace Islam largely due to his family's attachment to the Hindu faith.

The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state -- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace.

As the governor said, Delaware had been the first state to embrace the Union by ratifying the Constitution and would be the last to leave it.

" However, after Catherine Parr discovered the pair in an embrace, she ended this state of affairs.

As he was an only son, both parents opposed his desire to embrace the monastic state.

" He listed some as: being " interested mainly in ' economic freedoms '"; following the " conservative lifestyle of right-libertarians "; seeking " others to embrace their own conservative lifestyle "; considering big business " as a great victim of the state "; favoring a " strong national defense "; having " an Old Right opposition to empire.

As a first step, Hoyte gradually moved to embrace the private sector, recognizing that state control of the economy had failed.

) state that one should embrace the absurd condition of humankind while conversely continuing to explore and search for meaning.

For example, on 30 January 2005 at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Chávez declared his support for democratic socialism as integral to Bolivarianism, proclaiming that humanity must embrace " a new type of socialism, a humanist one, which puts humans, and not machines or the state, ahead of everything.

He has argued that voters in the American Jewish community don ’ t necessarily embrace candidates based on their support for the state of Israel as much as they passionately oppose candidates based on their identification with Christianity, especially the Christian Right.

There are abuses in the extended family system, but its basic pattern, when enlarged to embrace the state, is virtually what is meant by socialism .”

Jeanne Oddo-Deflou, leader of Groupe Français d ' Etudes Féministes, went so far as to state that male rejection of Bachofen by male intellectuals was good enough reasons for females to embrace him.

Robertson, Mage and Wohlforth opposed what they considered to be an uncritical embrace of Fidel Castro by the SWP leadership, which declared Cuba to be a workers state on a par with the early USSR.

Donald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox describe the Terran Federation as " Heinlein's last attempt to articulate a perfect government " and as " the ultimate embrace of both military and democratic ideas within a single state.

Having returned to a Preservationist world, and now restored to a fully human state, Lindsay decides to break with his past and embrace new dreams.

In 301, Tiridates proclaimed Christianity as the state religion of Armenia, making the Armenian kingdom the first state to embrace Christianity officially.

The special aim of this congregation is the sanctification of its members in the religious state by the exercise of works of charity, which in the spirit of its founder embrace every phase of moral and physical suffering and want.

His essay " Der Preußische Stil " (" The Prussian Style "), in which he celebrated the essence of Prussia as " the will to the state ", appeared in 1916, marking his embrace of nationalism.

Labor historians Jefferson Cowie and Nick Salvatore argue the New Deal was a short-term response to depression and did not mark a permanent commitment to a welfare state, claiming that America has always been too individualistic and too hostile to labor unions to ever embrace liberalism for any extended period of time.