A concept of karma ( along with samsara and moksha ) may originate in the shramana tradition of which Buddhism and Jainism are continuations.

It is synonymous with the concept of liberation ( moksha ) which refers to release from a state of suffering after an often lengthy period of committed spiritual practice.

In Indian religions, for example, the concept of salvation ( which is called moksha ) involves being free from an endless process of transmigration of the soul, a belief that is absent from Abrahamic soteriology.

The Sikh concept of mukti ( moksha ) is essentially that of jivan mukti, the one attainable in one ’ s lifetime itself.

In Hinduism ( also in Jainism and Sikhism ), the concept of moksha is akin to that of Buddhism's nirvana, as well as Christianity's doctrine of salvation.

In Hinduism ( also in Jainism and Sikhism ), the concept of moksha is akin to that of Buddhism's nirvana, as well as Christianity's doctrine of salvation.

In Hinduism ( also in Jainism and Sikhism ), the concept of moksha is akin to that of Buddhism's nirvana, as well as Christianity's doctrine of salvation.

The concept of hell and heaven in Sikhism is metaphorical and is said to be experienced by those who chose ( or not ) to live in the Five Thieves.

Sikhism believes in the concept of a human Soul ( Self ( spirituality ) or consciousness or spirit or astral body ).

The Sikh Gurus were fundamental to the Sikh religion, however the concept in Sikhism differs from other usages.

The concept of Guru in Sikhism stands on two pillars i. e. Miri-Piri.

* Physical reality is an illusion ( Sikhism / Hinduism / Buddhism's concept of maya ).

It was designed to uphold the principle of equality between all people regardless of religion, caste, colour, creed, age, gender or social status, a revolutionary concept in the caste-ordered society of 16th-century India where Sikhism began.

# Multi-level approach: Sikhism recognizes the concept of a multi-level approach to achieving your target as a disciple of the faith.

Atman means ' self ' in Sanskrit and is a concept of importance in Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism:

The concept of cyclical patterns is very prominent in Indian religions, such as Jainism, Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism among others.

* the concept of pleasure and relief in the religion of Sikhism

: See Khalsafor the concept of " warrior-saint " in Sikhism.

The primary deterrent appears to lie with the technical people themselves, and their concept of what constitutes status in present-day society.

Society here and abroad has been built around the dominating male -- even the Bible appears to endorse the concept.

The element air also appears as a concept in the Buddhist religion which has an ancient history in China.

An early example of the Golden Rule that reflects the Ancient Egyptian concept of Maat appears in the story of The Eloquent Peasant, which dates to the Middle Kingdom ( c. 2040 – 1650 BCE ): " Now this is the command: Do to the doer to cause that he do thus to you.

Donald Knuth notes that Hans Peter Luhn of IBM appears to have been the first to use the concept, in a memo dated January 1953, and that Robert Morris used the term in a survey paper in CACM which elevated the term from technical jargon to formal terminology.

Presently the concept is most often associated with Marxian economics, although it appears as a foundation to earlier classical economic theorists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo.

However, when deconstructed, each individual letter may refer to some universal concept found in the system that the formula appears.

Epstein's reference to this " phenomenon of an epiphanic being ", which appears through the transduction of sound, proved influential on Schaeffer ’ s concept of reduced listening.

A similar concept appears, although much less developed, in the game Quake 4, where the player can drive Mechs as well as other vehicles while the game is still primarily focused on ground based human combat.

Both systems have been compared with the concept of tanistry found in Early Irish Law, although the political reality appears to have been more complex.

The concept of other universes has been proposed to explain how our Universe appears to be fine-tuned for conscious life as we experience it.

Around 1700, the concept and practice of kingship appears to have been introduced through contact with Samoa or Tonga.

Although the term has been in use since at least the late 18th century ( used in 1796 in reference to alchemy ,) the concept of pseudoscience as distinct from real or proper science appears to have emerged in the mid-19th century.

Given the date of his publication and the widespread, permanent distribution of his work, it appears that he should be regarded as the originator of the concept of space sailing by light pressure, although he did not develop the concept further.

The concept of the taiji (" supreme ultimate "), in contrast with wuji (" without ultimate "), appears in both Taoist and Confucian Chinese philosophy, where it represents the fusion or mother of Yin and Yang into a single ultimate, represented by the taijitu symbol.

The concept of the tree of life appears in the writings of the Baha ' i Faith, where it can refer to the Manifestation of God, a great teacher who appears to humanity from age to age.

While clarifying the concept of world has arguably always been among the basic tasks of Western philosophy, this theme appears to have been raised explicitly only at the start of the twentieth century and has been the subject of continuous debate.

The concept of an ocean route to India appears to have originated after his death.

In recent economic writings the concept of firm-specific human capital, which includes those social relationships, individual instincts, and instructional details that are of value within one firm ( but not in general ), appears by way of explaining some labour mobility issues and such phenomena as golden handcuffs.

Although the surface area of the parachute design appears to be too small to offer effective resistance to the friction of the air and the wooden base-frame is superfluous and potentially harming, the revolutionary character of the new concept is obvious.

The concept appears in most fields of mathematics, including geometry and mathematical analysis, much like the concept of groups does.

The concept of wolf-riding Orcs first appears in The Tale of Tinúviel, an early version of the story of Beren and Lúthien written in the 1920s, posthumously published as part of The History of Middle-earth.

* Musical argument, a concept in the theory of musical form

Buddhist monks and nuns of most traditions are expected to refrain from all sexual activity and take vows of celibacy ; lay people, however, are not expected to refrain from any specific form of sexual activity, and there is no concept of sinfulness attached to sex.

Steiner built upon Goethe's conception of an imaginative power capable of synthesizing the sense-perceptible form of a thing ( an image of its outer appearance ) and the concept we have of that thing ( an image of its inner structure or nature ).

The name has been extended to many other entities, and the concept of a protective shield is found in other mythologies, while its form varies across sources.

However, the discrete and separate nature of the molecular concept usually requires that molecular ions be present only in well-separated form, such as a directed beam in a vacuum in a mass spectrograph.

State-monopoly capitalism was originally a Marxist concept referring to a form of corporate capitalism in which state policy is utilized to benefit and promote the interests of dominant or established corporations by shielding them from competitive pressures or by providing them with subsidies.

These were however used as abbreviations in diagrams or procedures ; there was no concept of atoms combining to form molecules.

This approach considers the complex realities surrounding the concept of crime and seeks to understand how changing social, political, psychological, and economic conditions may affect changing definitions of crime and the form of the legal, law-enforcement, and penal responses made by society.

In 1916, chemist Gilbert N. Lewis developed the concept of the electron-pair bond, in which two atoms may share one to six electrons, thus forming the single electron bond, a single bond, a double bond, or a triple bond ; in Lewis's own words, " An electron may form a part of the shell of two different atoms and cannot be said to belong to either one exclusively.

It disagrees with the concept that marriage acts as a form of distraction in attaining nearness to God.

Conservative Jews who reject the concept of verbal revelation believe that God revealed his will to Moses and other prophets in a non-verbal form — that is, God's revelation did not include the particular words of the divine texts.

The development of the concept of the corporation led to the wealthy supporters of the corporate form becoming suspicious of all unincorporated legal entities, which in turn led to the modern concept of the unincorporated or voluntary association.

Judaism emphasizes the Oneness of God and rejects the Christian concept of God in human form.

This is a concept of distance expressed by means of a smooth positive definite symmetric bilinear form defined on the tangent space at each point.

During the tour Bowie's observation of two seminal American proto-punk artists led him to develop a concept that would eventually find form in the Ziggy Stardust character: a melding of the persona of Iggy Pop with the music of Lou Reed, producing " the ultimate pop idol ".

Dziga Vertov believed his concept of Kino-Glaz, or " Cine Eye " in English, would help contemporary man evolve from a flawed creature into a higher, more precise form.

Although the utilitarian concept of enlightened self-interest could be considered an agent-focused form of the philosophy.

Relational ethics in close personal relationships form a central concept of contextual therapy.

His concept of recapitulation has been refuted in the form he gave it ( now called " strong recapitulation "), in favour of the ideas first advanced by Karl Ernst von Baer.

Edward B. Tylor and Lewis H Morgan brought the term " evolution " to anthropology though they tended toward the older pre-Spencerian definition helping to form the concept of unilineal evolution used during the later part of what Trigger calls the Antiquarianism-Imperial Synthesis period ( c1770-c1900 ).

He also introduced the concept of a finite field ( also known as a Galois field in his honor ), in essentially the same form as it is understood today.

Modern Hebrew tends to reserve this construction for phrases where the two components form a unified concept, whereas ordinary possession is more commonly expressed analytically with the preposition shel ' of ' ( etymologically consisting of the relativizer she-' that ' and the preposition le-' to ').

The exile community in Babylon thus became the source of significant portions of the Hebrew Bible: Isaiah 40 – 55, Ezekiel, the final version of Jeremiah, the work of the Priestly source in the Pentateuch, and the final form of the history of Israel from Deuteronomy to 2 Kings Theologically, they were responsible for the doctrines of individual responsibility and universalism ( the concept that one god controls the entire world ), and for the increased emphasis on purity and holiness.

Other luminaries include Keith Johnstone, the British teacher and writer – author of Impro, who founded the Theatre Machine and whose teachings form the foundation of the popular shortform Theatresports format, Dick Chudnow, founder of ComedySportz which evolved its family-friendly show format from Johnstone's Theatersports, Stan Wells, creator of the " Clap-In " longform style and founder of The Empty Stage Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles, and Bill Johnson, creator / director of The Magic Meathands, who pioneered the concept of " Commun-edy Outreach " by tailoring performances to non-traditional audiences, such as the homeless and foster children.