The recent transfer of cultural artifacts, including several Tibetan Buddhist relics, from the US to China may help advance the Chinese government’s efforts to distort Tibet’s history and appropriate ...

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but later Mahayana Buddhism introduced the compassionate ideal of the Bodhisattva. Similarly, in the Jewish Tanakh (Old Testament), God is portrayed as stern, forbidding, and distant, whereas in ...

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The Buddha, therefore, advised them to spread the ... His devotion impressed the gods, who ensured that all those who owed him repaid their loans, thereby restoring Anathapindika's fortunes.