About the Book From the very beginning of man's life, the Religion (Dharma) has played a key role in his daily behaviors and progress. In its broad meaning, the Religion (Dharma) is adoption of goodness; it carries with it the spirit of all welfare. What we take to be religions on the earth are, in fact, religious-communities and each of them directs its followers to lead life in a separate way based on some eternal value for mostly. Because that eternal value also incorporates goodness in it, all religious communities become an indispensable part of religion, no matter if the scope of them is not vast.
In this thought-provoking work, Other Religions of the World, Professor Pramote Seangpolsit has introduced fundamentals of those religious-communities, which are not much known, but they too equally accept the same eternal values to be important to make the life prosperous and worthy. No doubt, all interested will learn a lot from this book.
About the Author Born on September 12, 1951, Professor Pramote Seangpolsit is an eminent Thai scholar and administrator serving the Suan Dusit Rajabhat University, Suphanburi Thailand as its Director since 2000. Campus.
Apart from presiding over the committee for writing and editing two prestigious design curriculums in print media design and fashion design, engaging in the establishment of the main campus of the Suan Dusit Rajabhat University, organizing the programme pertaining to development of the assurance graduate: the diamond certificate, developing the Confucius Institute of Suan Dusit Rajabhat University in collaboration with the Quangxi University of the PRC, Professor Pramote is also working as the Vice-President of the Instructor Council of the SDRU, Thailand.
A widely travelled Professor Pramote has participated in a number of national international exhibitions, seminars and symposiums, especially in Japan, Philippines, Vietnam and the United States; he has earned several awards and honours like AMEC in painting and photography (1991) and TFYA (2000). Also he has published many papers and well-known books.
Foreword From the very beginning of man's life, the Religion (DHARMA) has played a key role in his daily behaviours and progress. In its broad meaning, the Religion (DHARMA) is adoption of goodness, it carries with it the spirit of all-welfare. What we take to be religions on the earth are, in fact, religious communities and each of them directs its followers to lead life in a separate way based on some eternal value foremostly. Because that eternal value also incorporates goodness in it, all religious communities become an indispensable part of religion, no matter if the scope of them is not vast.
Introduction Our world, since the emergence of human beings has been under the influence of the concept of Supreme power. The driving forces of nature have always fascinated humans. The first ones among them had been the floods, earthquakes, draughts and volcano eruptions. The early simple humans had always taken these things as natural calamities bestowed upon them by the supreme powers as a punishment of their sins. This concept later gave birth to the concept of religion. The rising and setting of the sun along with the waning and waxing of the moon added to a great deal of fascination in the hearts of these simple humans and they began wondering on such natural acts with great curiosity.
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