Whilst some in high places and positions of authority such as the Kandyan prince Vijaya Pala may have accepted Portuguese customs and traditions by adopting them as their own (3), the majority of the civilian population resisted Western religion and culture. ... "Sacred texts" (the Dhamma for Buddhists and the Sanskrit texts for Hindus) were also ordered to be destroyed whenever discovered. (2) Indeed, given the Portuguese colonist's eagerness to resort to violence in "converting" the native populations to Catholicism, it is perhaps no surprise that the aforementioned...

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The Soga in Japan then appointed the throne to his niece, which then appointed the throne to her nephew, Prince Shotoku, which created a "Seventeen Article Constitution" that made reverence for Buddhism by all Japanese necessary (Murphey, 197). ...

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On the other hand, we have Buddhism that was founded in the fourth or fifth century B.C. in northern India by a man known traditionally as Siddhartha (meaning "he who has reached the goal-) Gautama, the son of a warrior prince. ...

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Of the many religions that originated in the Indian peninsula, Buddhism is the one that, during the last decade, has known the biggest enthusiasm and the greatest increase in interest in the West (Baumann & Prebish, p. 85). In fact, this increase in interest is reflected by the numerous stories rela...

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