Religion and Belief 宗教与信仰
佛教：苦难的诊断与超越之路 English The story begins with four encounters. A young prince named Siddhartha Gautama (c. 563-483 BCE), raised in sheltered luxury in the Shakya republic (in present-day southern Nepal), sees outside his palace walls: an old man, a sick man,…
基督教：文化与历史导论 English Christianity began in first-century Palestine with the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, and spread from that single point across two millennia to become the world’s largest religion, with approximately 2.3 billion adherents across every continent. Its…
伊斯兰教：文化与历史导论 English Islam was founded in seventh-century Arabia through the prophethood of Muhammad, and spread within a century of its founding across the Middle East, North Africa, Persia, and into Central Asia and the Iberian Peninsula. Today it is practiced…
印度教：世界上最古老的现存宗教 English Hinduism is the world’s oldest living religion — its roots in the Vedic tradition date to approximately 1500 BCE or earlier — and among the most philosophically complex. Unlike Christianity, Islam, or Buddhism, it has no single founder,…
佛家四谛：苦、集、灭、道 English The Four Noble Truths are the first teaching the Buddha gave after his enlightenment, delivered in a deer park at Sarnath, near Varanasi, to five companions who had known him before. They are not the whole of Buddhist…