World Religions
Hinduism: The Eternal Religion and the One Behind the Many
On Sanatana Dharma as a civilization's accumulated wisdom, the unity beneath its thousand schools and deities, and why the West's categories of religion cannot contain it
World Religions
World Religions
Buddhism: The Dharma as Living Tradition
On how the Buddha's teaching about liberation from institutional religion became itself an institution, and what the Three Jewels reveal about this transformation
World Religions
Judaism: The Covenant, the Law, and the Wrestling
On how Judaism established the God that shaped Western civilization, the covenant that binds the divine and human in mutual obligation, and why argument with God became the tradition's essential practice
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Christianity: The Incarnation, the Cross, and the Resurrection
On how Jesus taught radical reversal of worldly values, the mythological logic of death and resurrection, and what institutional Christianity inherited but transformed
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Islam: Submission, the Quran, and the Straight Path
On the doctrine of tawhid as absolute oneness, the Quran as God's untranslatable speech, and Islam's uncompromising rejection of all compromise with divine unity
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Zoroastrianism: The First Prophet and the Cosmic Choice
On Zarathustra's vision of cosmic dualism, how human free will became the battleground between truth and lie, and the religion that shaped three empires and invented the afterlife
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Shinto: The Way of the Gods and the Sacred Ordinary
On kami as the sacred distributed throughout reality, and why a religion without doctrine or theology speaks most directly to the sacred ordinary