Does AI Have Buddha-Nature? Reflections on the Metaphysical, Soteriological, and Ethical Dimensions of Including Humanoid Robots in Religious Rituals from one Mahāyāna Buddhist Perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gereon Kopf
Keyword(s):  
Humanoid Robots ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Mahayana Buddhist

The temple Kōdaij made history when its priest enshrined the robot Mindar as a personification of Kannon Bodhisattva. Since Mahāyāna Buddhist texts typically reject any form of dualism between the divine and the secular implied by monotheism and even claim that “insentient beings are buddha-nature” and “insentient beings become buddhas”, Gabriele Trovato’s term “theomorphic” may not apply in this case. This paper will explore if humanoid robots can be thought of as conscious, deserving of person rights, and even divine in a Buddhist context. What are the practical and ethical implications of the possible Buddhist claim “all humanoids have Buddha-nature”?

Nilai-Nilai Pendidikan Karakter yang Terkandung di Dalam Ritual Bersamaan Hari Kemerdekan di Pura Pucak Desa Pelapuan Kecamatan Busungbiu Kabupaten Buleleng

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
I Dewa Made Rai Semara
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Basic Problem ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Ritual Process ◽  
The Temple

The purpose of this study was to describe the values ​​of character education contained in the ritual along with Independence Day at Pucak Temple Pelapuan Village, Busungbiu District, Buleleng Regency. Character values ​​in the development of education are very important things to do in order to realize a better nation's civilization. At the same time, in order to strengthen the values ​​of the nation's character, it can be done in various ways in everyday life. The values ​​of the nation's character have actually been contained in almost every human behavior that lives in various regions throughout Indonesia. The most basic problem with regard to realizing the values ​​of the nation's character education is to identify them in a number of behaviors in social life. The results of research in ritual activities carried out at Pucak Temple Pelapuan Village, Busungbiu District, Buleleng Regency have shown an effort to realize the values ​​of the nation's character in relation to the implementation of Hinduism. Hindus who carry out these activities simultaneously carry out two types of activities that support each other. First, religious rituals carried out by Hindus as a form of worship to the great power who resides in the temple to ask for waranugraha in order to overcome the struggle of life. Second, Hindus who carry out religious rituals also carry out national ceremonies by singing the anthem Indonesia Raya, Menhening Cipta, and chanting Pekik Merdeka as a form of love for the Republic of Indonesia. The ritual process is associated with the theory of symbols as a form of appreciation of Hindu religious teachings using symbolic media. The implementation of these activities is associated with Value theory, which is a manifestation of the implementation of the values of the nation's character as formulated by experts.

Neurotic Fantasy: The Third Temple As a Metaphor in the Contemporary Israeli Art of Nira Pereg and Yael Bartana

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 238-251
Author(s):  
Sigal Barkai
Keyword(s):  
Extensive Study ◽  
Israeli Society ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
Jewish Art ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The Face ◽  
Temple Mount ◽  
The Temple

In the political reality of Israel, some symbols lie at the heart of the political, religious, national, and historical discourse that characterize the peoples and cultures living on the Israeli-Palestinian soil. Among these, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is one of the most complex and conflictual symbols. The multiple religious claims to the Temple Mount—Jewish, Christian, and Muslim—are the subject of extensive study, but this article focuses on their reflection in contemporary Israeli art. In traditional Jewish art, the visual representations of the Temple or of Jews praying nearby expressed the longing of the Jews for generations to return to the Mount. In contrast, Yael Bartana and Nira Pereg view the multiple socio-political currents and religious rituals surrounding the Temple Mount as a reflection of the internal public debate regarding the face of the Israeli society today. This article discusses the contribution of their visual art to a conscious and aware discourse about the Israeli society and the underground currents that shape its contemporary identity. The analysis of their work tracks a “politics of aesthetics”—interpretation of the images within a socio-political context—and draws upon Israeli sociology, art history, and visual culture. In-depth personal interviews with the artists also inform the analysis.

scholarly journals PRASASTI PENDEK DARI CANDI SANGGAR DAN KEMUNGKINAN PENGHORMATAN TERHADAP DEWA BRAHMA

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Rita Istari
Keyword(s):  
Religious Rituals ◽  
The People ◽  
The Hill ◽  
The Temple

Sanggar temple is located on Penanjakan slope.. The hill is part of Wonogriyo of Pusungmalang village, Puspo regency, Pasuruan district. Sanggar temple suspected as place of worship to the God Brahma who dwells in Mount Bromo. On a series of research carried out in 2005-2008 by Yogyakarta Centre of Archaeology were found several short inscriptions around the temple to be praises used in religious rituals it is allegedly the people in the region. The tradition to sing praises by  until the spread of Islam in Java. The adoption of Islam influence changes lasted praises. The contents of such literatur review espeally ancient writings are used to prove the assumptin.

scholarly journals SHORT INSCRIPTION FROM SANGGAR TEMPLE A HOMAGE TO BRAHMA

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
T.M. Rita Istari
Keyword(s):  
Religious Rituals ◽  
The People ◽  
The Hill ◽  
The Temple

Sanggar temple is located on Penanjakan slope.. The hill is part of Wonogriyo of Pusungmalang village, Puspo regency, Pasuruan district. Sanggar temple suspected as place of worship to the God Brahma who dwells in Mount Bromo. On a series of research carried out in 2005-2008 by Yogyakarta Centre of Archaeology were found several short inscriptions around the temple to be praises used in religious rituals it is allegedly the people in the region. The tradition to sing praises by until the spread of Islam in Java. The adoption of Islam influence changes lasted praises. The contents of such literatur review espeally ancient writings are used to prove the assumptin.

scholarly journals Die metafoor ‘julle is die tempel van God’ as ’n etiese kernmoment in ’n postmoderne leefwêreld

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter Maré
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Rhetorical Question ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
The Temple

Die idee van die tempelmotief is my fokuspunt in hierdie artikel en daarom gaan ek teoretiseer oor die retoriese vraag waarmee die apostel Paulus die gemeente in Korinte konfronteer: Ouk oidate hoti naos theou este kai to pneuma tou theou en humin oikei? [Weet julle nie dat julle ’n tempel van God is en die Gees van God in julle woon nie?] (1 Kor. 3:16). Het hierdie vraag enige etiese implikasies vir die gemeente in Korinte ingehou en het dit nog enige hermeneutiese waarde vir die geloofsgemeenskap in die postmoderne leefwêreld waarin hulle hulself bevind?The metaphor ‘you are the temple of God’ as an ethical core moment in a postmodern world. The idea of the temple motif is my focal point in this article, and therefore, I am going to theorise on the rhetorical question asked by Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians: Ouk oidate hoti naos theou este kai to pneuma tou theou en humin oikei? [Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?] (1 Cor 3:16). Did this question hold any ethical implications for that congregation, and does it still have any hermeneutical value for the faithful community in the postmodern milieu in which they find themselves today?

scholarly journals Collective ritual and social support networks in rural South India

2018 ◽  
Vol 285 (1879) ◽  
pp. 20180023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor A. Power
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Religious Ritual ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
South Indian ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Temple

The scholarship on religion has long argued that collective worship helps foster social cohesion. Despite the pervasiveness of this contention, rigorous quantitative evaluations of it have been surprisingly limited. Here, I draw on network data representing the ties of social support among Hindu residents of a South Indian village to evaluate the association between collective religious ritual and social cohesion. I find that those who partake in collective religious rituals together have a higher probability of having a supportive relationship than those who do not. At the structural level, this corresponds to denser connections among co-participants. At the individual level, participants are more embedded in the local community of co-religionists, but are not disassociating themselves from members of other religious denominations. These patterns hold most strongly for co-participation in the recurrent, low-arousal monthly worships at the temple, and are suggestive for co-participation in the intense and dysphoric ritual acts carried out as part of an annual festival. Together, these findings provide clear empirical evidence of the lasting relationship between collective religious ritual and social cohesion.

scholarly journals گرو نانک کے جانشین اور سکھ مت کے ارتقاء میں ان کی اہمیت

rahatulquloob ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 156-173
Author(s):  
Maria Maan ◽  
Dr. Shabbir Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Temple

This article is an attempt to know about “The Succeeds of Guru Nanak and Their Significance in the Development of Sikhism .There have been nine Succeeds of Guru Nanak in the history of Sikhism. They took significant role in the field of development of Sikhism. It has been studied the major works of these succeeds in this articles. It throws light on the methodology and strategies of the succeeds of Guru Nanak in their reign. Gurdwara panja sahib is one of the holiest places in Sikhism which is believe hold a rock hand print of Guru Nanak. Every year, hundreds and thousands of pilgrims from various parts of the world, especially India and rural areas of Sindh, visit this temple to offer religious rituals in Connection with various occasion like Rakhi, Besakhi, Birth and death anniversary of Guru Nanak Ddev, Joti Jott Mela, death anniversary 05th Guru of Sikhism Guru Arjun Dev. and last emperor of Punjab Maharaja Ranjeet Singh. The lager (holy Food) served at the temple is part of the teachings of Guru Nanak dev Ji, the founder of Sikhism.

scholarly journals The Goddess Spitting Fire: Myths and Reality of the Kangra Temple

2021 ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Irina P. Chelysheva
Keyword(s):  
Source Material ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
The North ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
The Temple ◽  
North Western

The paper focuses on one of the most popular Hindu pilgrimage centers — Jwalamukhi temple, based in the Kangra district of the North-Western state of India, Himachal Pradesh. The temple is unique due to the absence of the main image. At the same time, people worship the deity as women’s energy Shakti in the form of a fire. The author draws attention to peculiar analogies traced by some research scholars between this temple and the fire temple named Surakhan Ateshgah near Baku in Azerbaijan. Considering this subject, the author analyses different versions of the origin of the fire temple in Azerbaijan, including the so-called “Indian angle”. Basing on the wide range of source material, including the reports of the Archaeological Survey of India established by the British colonial administration in 1861, the author evaluates and critically reviews various versions regarding possible dates of building this temple. Undertaken investigation allows concluding that the temple of Jwalamukhi could be founded in the 6th–7th centuries AD. However, the very cult of worshipping this goddess in Kangra might originate much earlier, in the first centuries BC. The article contains a cryptic narrative of the medieval history of the temple, supplemented by famous chronicles by Ferishta narrating how it was repeatedly subjected to devastating raids of Muslim armies, firstly led by the Delhi sultans and later by Mughal rulers. The description of the temple and religious rituals are based on the personal impressions of the author.

scholarly journals The Performances at the Theatre of the Pythion in Gortyna, Crete. Virtual Acoustics Analysis as a Support for Interpretation

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 434-443
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Manzetti
Keyword(s):  
Clear Correlation ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
Primary Function ◽  
Virtual Acoustics ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Significant Support

AbstractThe location of the so-called “small” Roman theatre of Gortyna (Crete), precisely at the back of the temple dedicated to Apollo Pythios, suggests a clear correlation of this monument with religious rituals. We may suppose that the theatre was used in particular during the Ludi Apollinares (Pythia), namely games and a festival dedicated to the God Apollo (held for the first time in Rome in 212 BC) or during the iso-Olympic agones as witnessed by the epigraphic sources of the imperial age. However, we have to consider also the possibility that the “small” theatre of Gortyna could have housed civic ceremonies or other activities related to the life of the Koinon ton Kreton, the federal assembly of all the Cretan cities which had its seat during the imperial times right in the space of the sanctuary. This paper aims to verify the typology of performances and activities that could take place in the theatre of the Pythion (namely if it was more suitable for music or speech) through virtual acoustics analysis. The study of the acoustics’ quality has provided significant support to formulate hypotheses about the primary function of the theatre of the Pythion at Gortyna.

scholarly journals A Framework for Using Humanoid Robots in the School Learning Environment

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 756
Author(s):  
Deepti Mishra ◽  
Karen Parish ◽  
Ricardo Gregorio Lugo ◽  
Hao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Humanoid Robots ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Efficient Machine ◽  
School Learning

With predictions of robotics and efficient machine learning being the building blocks of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, countries need to adopt a long-term strategy to deal with potential challenges of automation and education must be at the center of this long-term strategy. Education must provide students with a grounding in certain skills, such as computational thinking and an understanding of robotics, which are likely to be required in many future roles. Targeting an acknowledged gap in existing humanoid robot research in the school learning environment, we present a multidisciplinary framework that integrates the following four perspectives: technological, pedagogical, efficacy of humanoid robots and a consideration of the ethical implications of using humanoid robots. Further, this paper presents a proposed application, evaluation and a case study of how the framework can be used.

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