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SAMYUTTA NIKĀYA (FROM THE BUDDHA AND HIS TEACHINGS BY Venerable Nārada Mahā thera) Rebirth, which Buddhists do not regard as a mere theory but as a fact verifiable by evidence, forms a fundamental tenet of Buddhism, though its goal Nibbana is attainable in this life itself. The Bodhisatta Ideal and the correlative doctrine of freedom to attain utter perfection are based on this doctrine of rebirth. Documents record that this belief in rebirth, viewed as transmigration or reincarnation, was accepted by philo-sophers like Pythagoras and Plato, poets like Shelly, Tennyson and Wordswor...

Signs of Mind By Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing, December 29, 2020 I found myself, in this season of holidays, in conversation with a bright young man, who has been in a fine boarding school – but learning now remotely in the time of COVID. He has stayed, though, in constant touch with his friends at school. I asked whether these vibrant youngsters bore any interest in religion. He remarked that there’s very little interest – for there’s virtually no belief in what he called “higher powers.” That brought back the memory of my dear, late friend Daniel Robinson, musing aloud befor...

The Global Al-Farabi Forum in Islamabad highlights Social Philosophy of Abu Nasr al Farabi By Prof Shazia Cheema Islamabad, Pakistan: Today I got an opportunity provided by Kazakhstan Embassy to attend an international forum dedicated to Abu Nasr al Farabi. Al-Farabi’s philosophy of Society (and religion) can be labeled as an intellectual and original blend, of Aristotle and Plato’s philosophy and turns out to be a clever adaptation of Greek ethical-political thought to the needs and demands of its new context, the Islamic world of the 10 th century. Al-Farabi is first philosopher in the...