some have wanted to worship the Buddha as a powerful foreign god). It simply requires one to relinquish the notion of self and follow a path designed to provide a way out of the trap of cyclic existence.
Tag: Hinduism
Convert a Friend — Part IV
I hope that you enjoy the fourth installment of the Convert a Friend series. As always, I am posting it without edits. The following essay was written by Melissa Illingworth. If I was going to try to convince a friend to become either Buddhist or Hindu, what arguments would you use and why? Hinduism is a …
Convert a Friend — Part II
Hinduism is ranked as the fourth largest world religion with approximately 900 million followers (Adherents.com, 2007). But if you're like most Westerners, you probably don't know much about it. Tonight's post, the second in the Convert a Friend series, may shed a little light. This guest series features essays written by Professor Michele Scott James's Eastern Religions students at MiraCosta …
Eclectic Spirituality 