... what you want from the Buddha. They did however establish monasteries for Buddhist monks to use for teachings and instructions from the Buddha. Buddhist Art and Architecture in India: Buddhist architecture came about in the third century when Asoka made Buddhism the state religion. They built 60,000 shrines ... use of sculptures to represent the Buddha. These statues would become an important part of there worship. Buddhist Art and Architecture in China: Buddhist in China adopted the architecture style from the Indian Buddhist but made some adjustments of there own. They used the basic...

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... out of his mothers womb and emerges from the ruins of his sweet infantile world he sees around him a complex world with rich dialects, resplendent art, diverse ideas and beliefs and fascinating rituals and ceremonies. From his nascent life the child emulates his surrounding and adapts the "culture" of his lineage ... . As human population increased and the human race was evolving people with similar ancestor , surroundings or even beliefs came together to develop language, tools, art, clothing, food, rituals distinctly different other clan or tribes. Thus societies with disparate culture ...

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... Arab and muslim was obliged to pursue knowledge in all its forms. They endeavoured to acquire the knowledge of previous civilizations by obtaining Egyptian, Babylonian, Indian, Chinese, Farsi, Armenian, Hebrew and Roman texts and translating them into Arabic. Arabic would become as essential as English is today. Europe would cling ... already a dying language. At the same time as acquiring knowledge, the Islamic civilization was able to disperse it, because it had procured the art of paper-making from the Chinese. At its peak, tens of thousands of books were published every year and in ju...

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... prevailed. The two religions simply had too many conflicts between each other, such as their indifferences to pork and beef, abilities and inabilities to honor their gods through music and art, and the disagreement between the veiling of women. The conflicts among the two, along with Islam's inability to effectively fit into the caste system, ultimately led to religious tolerance throughout ... the region. The Delhi sultanate did not promote a significant cultural revival in India, aside from a degree of mixed Indian and Muslim painting, architecture, and clothing styles. In the end, th...

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... only from the Greek and Syriac languages (the languages of eastern Christian scholars), but also from Pahlavi, the scholarly language of pre-Islamic Persia, and even from Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language. Most of the important philosophical and scientific works of Aristotle; much of Plato and the Pythagorean school; and the major works of Greek astronomy, mathematics and medicine such as ... Islamic tradition went far beyond translation and preservation of ancient learning. These scholars built upon and developed the ancient heritage before passing it on to the West. Muslims excelle...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate