Dear Gillian It is interesting to consider what the Established Church decides to emphasise and to withhold through its teaching, and how you can work-out
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Animal Liberation Should Have a Marxist-Leninist Basis
I do not mean that animal rights should ONLY possess a Marxist-Leninist foundation, but that Marxist-Leninists should recognize the validity of this movement and acknowledge
How the Buddha Repositioned Awareness
Buddhism was not designed to be a theistic religion, but rather an alternative to the belief that gods and goddesses existed ‘unseen’ in the material
Did Buddhism Pre-Exist the Historical Buddha?
Evidence for a type of Buddhism ‘pre-existing’ the birth of the historical Buddha, however, might exist in the Brahmanic teachings of the Upanishads. In the Kathakopanisad, a doctrine is critically described that does not accept the concept of a central and eternal ‘atma’, but which instead advocates a theory of ‘separate elements’ (prthag-dharman pasyati).