Ellora contains 34 caves, with Buddhist Chaityas, Viharas, and Hindu and Jain temples. According to the NIC, the most magnificent work contained here is the Kailasa Temple in Cave 16, with its grand claim to being the largest monolithic structure in the world. As such, both Ajanta and Ellora were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1983. According to the Buddhist Temple.com web site, the Ajanta caves bore

Theology Pascal's projected apologia for Christian belief, for which the text of the Pensees offers some glimpse, would ultimately have reflected his sincere conversion (of sorts) to the gloomy Jansenist theology which hovers over his works generally. Ultimately rejected by the Roman Catholic church as heretical, Jansenism emphasized the fallen and corrupt nature of man in an Augustianian way, while at the same time suggesting that only God's grace can permit

Theology Buddhism grew out of the Hindu religion alongside Jainism. These two religions (Buddhism and Jainism) are extremely similar in that they both accept all people and reject authority and the caste system, but Buddhism differs greatly from Jainism in that Buddists are taught to follow a path through the middle of "worldliness and extreme asceticism." (Hopfe, and Woodward 127) The creator of the Buddhist religion is attributed to a man

Buddhist Beliefs about Human Life and Death Buddhists do not believe that the essence of the individual ceases to exist after our physical death; instead, our mind continues to exist indefinitely but in a more subtle form (Gyatso, 2005). Buddhists believe that the mind is not dependent on physical form or on any physical or physiological processes; instead, it is a formless continuum that exists apart from the physical body and

Buddhist Art and further, to explore the characteristics of Art in Buddhism as well as naming two Buddhist artists and their works from this period. Buddhist Art has within it several periods within the scope of what is termed Buddhist Art. Buddhist Art sprang from the religion Buddhism, which is a religion based on the teaching of Buddha. Dragons, flowers, as well as Buddha himself are portrayed in paintings, statues,

Nirvana Religious doctrine usually includes some form of salvation as a reward for good behavior and for keeping to the tenets of the religion. Each religion treats this general idea in its own way. For the Christian, right behavior lead to salvation from permanent death and promises an afterlife in heaven. In Buddhism, the promise is not of an afterlife but of a reward in this world, a reward in the