Once, there was a man named Maudgalyayana, or known as Mục Kiền Liên to Vietnamese people. He acted virtuously to the point where he was the Buddha’s closest disciples (Nguyen 1). However, his mother was the opposite, refusing to give beggars food and committing other horrific actions. During her lifetime, her actions built up a bad karma. So, when she died, she was promptly sent to hell. Her punishment for starving other people was to be denied of any food or water (“Maudgalyayana Rescuing His Mother”). Of course, Maudgalyayana didn’t know what was of his mother when she died, so he attempted to find her. Nowhere was she in the heavens, so he asked the Buddha for aid (Nguyen). The Buddha pointed him in the direction of hell, so Maudgalyayana immediately transported himself there. Little did he know the horrors that awaited him. …show more content…
According to shaolin.org, Maudgalyayana’s belly was swollen, just like a melon, but her limbs resembled branches. Maudgalyayana felt so bad that he summoned a bowl of rice, hoping to temporarily alleviate his mother’s pain. However, the curse of his mother was too powerful, and the bowl of rice lit on fire. Maudgalyayana went back to the main world, where he begged for the Buddha to help out his mother. The Buddha revealed that no one person can remove the sins of such a malicious person, so Maudgalyayana would have to utilize the prayers of many (“Maudgalyayana Rescuing His Mother”). On the 15th day of the 7th lunar month, he fed many monks, and they prayed in return. As a result, Maudgalyayana’s mother was freed from her punishment. In modern life, people take the time to thank their mothers in the form of the festival on the 15th of the 7th lunar month, known as: Lễ Vu
Sacajawea is a well-known American-Indian woman. Her expedition with explorers Lewis and Clark was extraordinary. She was born in Tendoy, Idaho around 1788. She was a member of the Lemhi Shoshone tribe. At this time, the American territory ended at the Mississippi River. One year after the Louisiana Purchase, President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark on an expedition that left from St. Louis, Missouri, traveling through the US Northwest, to the Pacific Ocean (History).
The Tuscarora lived in North Carolina along the coastal river, their peaceful ways and unlimited amount of patience earned them nothing but abuse from the colonists (Axelrod 60). One day a Swiss Entrepreneur, Baron Christoph von Graffenreid wanted to take control of land that had been occupied with the Tuscarora village. Instead of Graffenreid talking with the Indians who were presently on the land, he decided to speak with North Carolinas surveyor general; who decided to vote in favor of Baron Christoph von Graffenreid deciding that the settlers, “held clear title to the land” (Axelrod 58). Graffenreid decided to drive the Indians off of their own land on September 22, 1711 the Indians were left with no other option but to attack (Axelrod
Sacagawea was A near-legendary figure in the history of the American West, and I believe that without Sacagawea, Lewis, and Clark wouldn’t be able to have any life skills on survival. She also Proved women can do anything, Sacagawea helped Lewis and Clark with their survival skills and translation.
There are many incredible people who tend to be glossed over in the history books. For example, Henrietta Lacks, Ada Lovelace, and Rosalind Franklin were mistreated, taken advantage of, scoffed at, and all but forgotten by history. What many of these people have in common is that they aren’t powerful white men. Women and non-Caucasians tend to be overlooked in the retelling of mankind, in favor of giving credence to their white male counterparts. One such woman is Sacagawea, a Sashone woman who bravely accompanied Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition as a translator, negotiator, and guide, all the while with a baby on her back. Many loosely associate her name with the U.S. gold dollar coin, but few know her story.
Research in the field of "biblical literary criticism" have rapidly increased in recent decades. The publication of Robert Alter 's 1981 The Art of Biblical Narrative stamps the symbolic arrival of a style of analysis that has now become entrenched in modern biblical research. Robert Alter argues that the Bible is a largely cohesive literary text to be read with a literary purpose. In this essay it is asked if assumptions about texts predicated on the study of modern literature can be profitably applied to a multiple-authored, multi-layered collection of ancient provenance such as the Hebrew Bible and offers a brief critique of Alter 's discussion of the artistic merits and unity of Genesis chapters 37-39.
She was beaten, shackled and “was wet with the dew of all the men who had covered her before” him(4). He quickly recognizes her because his mother is also an Ila woman. He takes care of her — washing her disarrayed body, starting a fire for warmth and protection, and hunting for food. He also believed in fasting for ten consecutive days as a way of a spiritual cure those who are suffering, “in this way the spirit of the dead one grows weak, finally it lets go and journeys to the land of the soul” (5). He grew weak, yet still taking care of her. They began to love one another, and did not want to be apart. Taking her first steps, she ventured to short travels, but was not ready for a lonesome journey. With each trial, the journey becomes a little farther. Twelve days later, she was gone. He holds himself back from calling her name aloud to take her back forever. He continues on with his journey to the village, hunting for food as he returns to the village not
for quite some time; she had obtained the boons many, many years back when Śambarāsura was killed. Couldn’t she have asked for the boons all those days? She asked them on My sake. rājyāt bhraṁśaḥ – she asked for Me but at the same time, she asked for herself. How prejudicial this is? What an ordeal this has been?!
When ever I think of my childhood there is always one memory that always pops into my head; playing with my tamagotchi all throughout elementary school. A tamagotchi is a small oval-shaped device that consists of a screen and a few buttons. What made the tamagotchi appealing to me was the concept of the egg hatching when you first start the game and you care for it until it grows its wings/”dies.” How well the child cares for the pet will determine how healthy and well-behaved the pet is. When I was playing with the tamagotchi, I always made sure that they were cared for extremely well, and I would even sneak it to school with me to make sure it was not neglected. Having the tamagotchi was my first experience of
After encountering the fourth sight of the holy man, Guatama believed this holy way of life could provide adequate insight on how to overcome such agony and anguish. He wanted to come up with a preventative resolution from the immense amount of suffering, that ended in misery and death. When Siddhartha saw the monk and the peacefulness that was upon him, it impacted his way of perceiving the world. There was a unique sense of lightheartedness and tranquility, amongst the monk, even though deep suffering was all around him. The symbols of wisdom, peace and happiness, despite such misery or evil was incredibly impressing and inspirational. This encouraged Siddhartha to seek religion and proved to be the motivational driving force that would cause him to pursue a path to enlightenment and ultimate bliss. For months he gave a considerable amount of thought to whether he should become a monk or not. Nevertheless, “he hoped that he might come to a realization of how to find permanence in this world of constant change, where suffering was the inevitable outcome” (Corduan, 2012, p.316). One night, Siddhartha decided to kiss his wife and son goodbye and begin his journey in search of answers and a path to understanding. Beyond the only life that he had ever known, he cut off his hair and “embarked upon a quest for enlightenment” and began “meditative
Trade brings people from different civilizations and backgrounds together to a common place; it allows for the process of bartering to happen. The thought or idea of exchanging goods for another set of goods or money has historically helped colonies and civilizations grow and expand. It is necessary to sometimes set a “trade point” along a trade route so that it’s accessible by as many people as possible to expand on your options and to sell off or trade as much as possible. Once people started to realize that you can take a product that is of abundance in your region like spices, textiles, and/or precious metals and sell it or trade it to other regions to become financially rich,
She asks for pity, yet the townspeople are strict with keeping with their traditions and her pleas of kindness neglect to draw in anybody's consideration and she is stoned to death.
[Marjane]” (Satrapi 70) Marjane says this after her uncle is executed. After that she was not very religious. She was strong in her faith as a young child but as she grew older she started losing her faith until she finally lost it. She started having even more problems when she moved to another country because of the
This portrays an early form of sexism, and a highly negative attitude toward the woman, showing that fundamental female qualities such as pregnancy and childbirth are irrelevant and not things to be highly valued. In the Buddha legend and during his life in general, the Buddha showed several contradictions concerning the status of women. He was said to be “torn between the culture and social system, and the conviction that women are as capable as men.”[3] Firstly, Maya, the name of his mother, means illusion in Sanskrit. However, in ancient Indian beliefs from which Tibetan Buddhism emerged, Maya was the name of the most powerful goddess who represented all material things in the universe. The Buddha also believed that the woman’s body was something impure and dirty, which then manifested itself into impure and evil personality characteristics. “The female’s defects – greed, hate, delusion, and other defilements – are greater than the male’s…Because I wish to be freed from the impurities of the woman’s body, I will acquire the beautiful and fresh body of a man.”[4] Women were believed to have uncontrolled sexuality, which was greatly frowned upon by men. The Buddha comments that “it were better that your sex enter the mouth of a poisonous snake than that it enter a woman.”[5] This rather harsh statement about male disgust toward sexual intercourse with women is the foundation of one of the biggest contradictions found in Tibetan Buddhism. Not only did
The Buddha cures fatal maladies by means of great compassion; thus he is named "Medicine Master." He manifests his perfect and brilliant body based on his great wisdom; accordingly he gains the title "Lapis Lazuli." The Buddha's impartial attitude is certainly unaffected by anything. Only if one is earnest and devout, one may move the Buddha and interconnect with him. Lady Lu from Fanyang County who is the wife of Nobleman Fan, the Grand Master of Remonstrance and the Regional Inspector at Huzhou, is the person capable of doing this. Since she is pregnant, she has been keeping the Buddha’s generosity in mind. Firstly, [her husband] has the fortune to receive a higher official position. Thereafter she gives birth to a son. Thus she commissions
College is known to many as the best time of their lives, a period where one gets to explore and find one’s self. College however, can also be awful for one’s overall health. Many college students often put their health on the back burner as they often partake very unhealthy habits and behaviors, such as a poor diet, use of drugs, excessive alcohol consumption and lack of sleep. Many of these bad habits can have numerous short term and long term impact on one’s health. First and foremost, one can drastically damage their body and internal organs through all of these habits, but especially though drug abuse, binge drinking and cigarettes. Out of all of these bad behaviors, binge drinking probably one of the most common behavior found on a college campuses, which can result in stroke, high blood pressure, death from alcohol poisoning, unintentional injuries and liver disease. In addition to Bing drinking, many students consume and abuse an abundance of drugs with the most common ones being marijuana, cocaine, MDMA and prescription pills like Adderall. Drugs have a variety of effects, with some ranging temporary mental impairment to possible death.