Eastern Traditions and the Big Questions

How do Eastern traditions address the Big Questions of existence and sentience—Closer To Truth’s pillar categories of Cosmos, Consciousness, Meaning? How do Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Hinduism address fundamental questions: deep nature of the world; human person; evil and suffering; contemplative practices; essence and existence, the nature of being, ontology; and ultimate futures, life after death, transformation of the world, eschatology?

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How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions, Hinduism, and Shintoism address causality, consciousness, energies, God, and ultimate reality? What is non-dualism? How is the world...

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Existence and Attributes of Foundational Reality (Part I)

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How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions, Hinduism, and Shintoism address causality, consciousness, energies, God, and ultimate reality? What is non-dualism? How is the world...

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Existence and Attributes of Foundational Reality (Part II)

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How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions, and Hinduism address the essence of human sentience? What is consciousness? What is the self? What is qi? Do humans have souls or...

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The Nature of the Human Person (Part I)

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23:10

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How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions, and Hinduism address the essence of human sentience? What is consciousness? What is the self? What is qi? Do humans have souls or...

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The Nature of the Human Person (Part II)

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How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions, and Hinduism address the perennial problems of suffering, ethics, ritual, and contemplative practices? Why is suffering so important in...

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Morality, Prescriptive Behavior, Evil, Suffering (Part I)

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How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions, and Hinduism address the perennial problems of suffering, ethics, ritual, and contemplative practices? Why is suffering so important in...

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Morality, Prescriptive Behavior, Evil, Suffering (Part II)

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How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions, and Hinduism address the ultimate essence of all things, the ground of being? What are transcendence, oneness, interconnectivity,...

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Metaphysics: Essence and Existence (Part I)

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Contributors

Kelly James Clark

Senior Research Fellow, Kaufman Interfaith Institute; Professor, Grand Valley State University

Helen De Cruz

Danforth Chair in the Humanities, Saint Louis University

Jay Garfield

Professor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne; Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities, Smith College

Yujin Nagasawa

Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics; Professor of the Philosophy, University of Oklahoma

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Eastern Traditions and the Big Questions

Topic Series

Existence and Attributes of Foundational Reality (Part I)

Existence and Attributes of Foundational Reality (Part II)

The Nature of the Human Person (Part I)

The Nature of the Human Person (Part II)

Morality, Prescriptive Behavior, Evil, Suffering (Part I)

Morality, Prescriptive Behavior, Evil, Suffering (Part II)

Metaphysics: Essence and Existence (Part I)

Contributors

Kelly James Clark

Helen De Cruz

Jay Garfield

Yujin Nagasawa