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Need for a high school project
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I would recommend using and explaining a piece of Buddhist artwork known as the Wheel of Life.
http://www.merlinnz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/wheel_of_life.jpg
http://www.npr.org/programs/re/geography_heaven/kawakarpo/wheeloflife/slide.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavacakra
Within the Wheel of Life are depictions of very core Buddhist teachings. The very center of the wheel, the hub, is a picture of three animals, each representing one of the three root poisons. The pig represents ignorance or delusion, the snake represents aggression or ill-will, and the rooster represents passion or desire.
Around the hub is a small circle representing karma. Around karma circles six other pictures that represent the six realms of rebirth: the deva or god realm, the asura or jealous god realm, the human realm, the animal realm, the hungry ghost realm, and the hell realm.
The outer rim of the wheel is made up of twelve more pictures, which represent the twelve links of co-dependent origination (another very core Buddhist teaching). The twelve links are ignorance, karmic formations, consciousness, name & form (mind & matter), the six senses, contact, feeling, craving, clinging, becoming, birth, and dukkha (suffering).
http://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/books-articles/articles/transcribed-talks/karma-and-intention/
http://www.audiodharma.org/talks/?search=arising
Holding the wheel is the fearsome monster Yama, the lord of death. The figure represents the truth of impermanence, that nothing is ever lasting. Hence the third eye, a symbol of wisdom. Yama also wears a crown of five skulls that represent the five skandhas: form, feeling, perception, fabrications, & consciousness. These groups or heaps is what Buddhism says is the makeup of a human being and what humans attach to that causes them suffering. Yama four limbs represent the four truths of human existence: birth, old age, sickness, and death.
http://www.dhammaloka.org.au/downloads/item/242-the-five-aggregates.html
http://www.audiodharma.org/talks/?search=impermanence
So to recap the teachings represented in this one piece of artwork:
1. Three Root Poisons: Greed, Hatred, Delusion
2. Karma
3. Six Realms of Rebirth
4. Twelve Links of Co-dependent Origination
5. Impermanence (the first characteristic of existence; suffering and non-self are the other two).
6. The Five Aggregates (Skandhas)
7. The Four Truths of Existence: Birth, Old Age, Sickness, Death
Of course there is still more to this artwork, but if you do a bit of research on just these teachings, you should have plenty of material for a high school project. Hope this helps.
EDIT: Found this link that explains each main piece of the Wheel of Life that you may find useful
http://www.exoticindiaart.com/article/wheeloflife/
I would recommend using and explaining a piece of Buddhist artwork known as the Wheel of Life.
http://www.merlinnz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/wheel_of_life.jpg
http://www.npr.org/programs/re/geography_heaven/kawakarpo/wheeloflife/slide.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavacakra
Within the Wheel of Life are depictions of very core Buddhist teachings. The very center of the wheel, the hub, is a picture of three animals, each representing one of the three root poisons. The pig represents ignorance or delusion, the snake represents aggression or ill-will, and the rooster represents passion or desire.
Around the hub is a small circle representing karma. Around karma circles six other pictures that represent the six realms of rebirth: the deva or god realm, the asura or jealous god realm, the human realm, the animal realm, the hungry ghost realm, and the hell realm.
The outer rim of the wheel is made up of twelve more pictures, which represent the twelve links of co-dependent origination (another very core Buddhist teaching). The twelve links are ignorance, karmic formations, consciousness, name & form (mind & matter), the six senses, contact, feeling, craving, clinging, becoming, birth, and dukkha (suffering).
http://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/books-articles/articles/transcribed-talks/karma-and-intention/
http://www.audiodharma.org/talks/?search=arising
Holding the wheel is the fearsome monster Yama, the lord of death. The figure represents the truth of impermanence, that nothing is ever lasting. Hence the third eye, a symbol of wisdom. Yama also wears a crown of five skulls that represent the five skandhas: form, feeling, perception, fabrications, & consciousness. These groups or heaps is what Buddhism says is the makeup of a human being and what humans attach to that causes them suffering. Yama four limbs represent the four truths of human existence: birth, old age, sickness, and death.
http://www.dhammaloka.org.au/downloads/item/242-the-five-aggregates.html
http://www.audiodharma.org/talks/?search=impermanence
So to recap the teachings represented in this one piece of artwork:
1. Three Root Poisons: Greed, Hatred, Delusion
2. Karma
3. Six Realms of Rebirth
4. Twelve Links of Co-dependent Origination
5. Impermanence (the first characteristic of existence; suffering and non-self are the other two).
6. The Five Aggregates (Skandhas)
7. The Four Truths of Existence: Birth, Old Age, Sickness, Death
Of course there is still more to this artwork, but if you do a bit of research on just these teachings, you should have plenty of material for a high school project. Hope this helps.
EDIT: Found this link that explains each main piece of the Wheel of Life that you may find useful
http://www.exoticindiaart.com/article/wheeloflife/
How long has radical Islam been a problem in the world, specifically America?
Q. And what started it?
for some reason I thought in happened in the 80's
for some reason I thought in happened in the 80's
Answer
The overthrow of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the shah of Iran by the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979 was probably one of the keystones in todayâs radical Islam.
Al-Qaeda, means 'the base'. Al-Qaeda, began in 1989 when the Russian Army left Afghanistan.
But neither of these could actually be construed as the beginnings of radical Islam, they were only the continuations of a movement that had even earlier beginnings.
The most painful and the most hated penetration into the Islamic world by the West was the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. To the embarrassment of the Muslim world, a unified front of Arab armies lost a bitter war to the newly formed country of only 600,000 Jews.
Western concepts and institutions, transplanted to the Muslim world, were viewed as disruptive, influential and destabilizing for the Islamic status quo, too radically different for traditional and generally static Muslim culture. The Islamic world was not ready for these changes.
Many Muslims adapted to the fast-paced changes common to Western industrialization and modernization, while many more Muslims rejected them.
They not only rejected the influence of the West, they rejected the legitimacy of their own governments in the Arabic world, which they saw as subservient to the West. Thus, the overthrow of these regimes became an important part of the Islamist agenda.
The biggest push for this agenda came in 1928, with the founding of the Ikhwan al-Muslimun or Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
The Muslim Brotherhood found further inspiration in the 1950s and 1960s from the writings of Sayyid Qutb, a radical scholar who provided Quranic justifications for attacking secular Arab leaders that did not run their governments according to the shari'a or Islamic law. In his most famous book, "Milestones," he advocated jihad, or holy war, as a means to shake off the shackles of repressive secular regimes.
Militant Islam gained momentum after the devastating Arab loss to Israel in the Six-Day War of June 1967. Yet another defeat for the Muslim world came at the hands of the Jews, a people Muslims regard as religiously inferior. Worse was the fact that Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site, had been conquered. Looking for answers, increasing numbers of Middle Eastern Muslims returned to their Islamic roots.
Islamic roots.
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/09/131916271/officials-worry-about-some-latino-converts-to-islam
http://www.meforum.org/168/at-war-with-whom
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/84.pdf
http://www.sullivan-county.com/x/fox_imm.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_terrorism
The overthrow of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the shah of Iran by the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979 was probably one of the keystones in todayâs radical Islam.
Al-Qaeda, means 'the base'. Al-Qaeda, began in 1989 when the Russian Army left Afghanistan.
But neither of these could actually be construed as the beginnings of radical Islam, they were only the continuations of a movement that had even earlier beginnings.
The most painful and the most hated penetration into the Islamic world by the West was the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. To the embarrassment of the Muslim world, a unified front of Arab armies lost a bitter war to the newly formed country of only 600,000 Jews.
Western concepts and institutions, transplanted to the Muslim world, were viewed as disruptive, influential and destabilizing for the Islamic status quo, too radically different for traditional and generally static Muslim culture. The Islamic world was not ready for these changes.
Many Muslims adapted to the fast-paced changes common to Western industrialization and modernization, while many more Muslims rejected them.
They not only rejected the influence of the West, they rejected the legitimacy of their own governments in the Arabic world, which they saw as subservient to the West. Thus, the overthrow of these regimes became an important part of the Islamist agenda.
The biggest push for this agenda came in 1928, with the founding of the Ikhwan al-Muslimun or Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
The Muslim Brotherhood found further inspiration in the 1950s and 1960s from the writings of Sayyid Qutb, a radical scholar who provided Quranic justifications for attacking secular Arab leaders that did not run their governments according to the shari'a or Islamic law. In his most famous book, "Milestones," he advocated jihad, or holy war, as a means to shake off the shackles of repressive secular regimes.
Militant Islam gained momentum after the devastating Arab loss to Israel in the Six-Day War of June 1967. Yet another defeat for the Muslim world came at the hands of the Jews, a people Muslims regard as religiously inferior. Worse was the fact that Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site, had been conquered. Looking for answers, increasing numbers of Middle Eastern Muslims returned to their Islamic roots.
Islamic roots.
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/09/131916271/officials-worry-about-some-latino-converts-to-islam
http://www.meforum.org/168/at-war-with-whom
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/84.pdf
http://www.sullivan-county.com/x/fox_imm.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_terrorism
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