Educación Religiosa y el Mundo

HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT: The beginnings of Confucianism are traced between 1776 and 1112a.c where the Shang dynasty encourages a certain cultural-spiritual environment. Here divination was practiced in relation to the spirits. At the end of the Han Dynasty Confucianism was the state ideology, then scholars of the Wei-Jin dynasty introduced elements to Taoism. Confucianism came to face competition with Buddhism and Taoism. A great representative or - in better words - impeller of Confucianism was Han Yu who was a very important person inside the Confucian administration. Confucianism at the beginning was taught by the administrative leaders of the nation, an element that helped Han Yu to elaborate a Neo-Confucianism that was based on ancient Confucian texts and as a product of cultural and religious friction with Buddhism and Taoism. FOUNDER: Kong - Zi better known as "Confusion" in the West, is believed to have been born between 552 and 551 BC i

Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism. The word zen is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word chan (禪), which in turn derives from the Sanskrit word dhiana, which means 'meditation'. It should be noted that Japanese teacher Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki equates dhyana with zazen1 (in Chinese 坐禅 zu-chán, 'sitting meditation'). Apart from theoretical or intellectual knowledge, Zen seeks the experience of wisdom beyond rational discourse.2 The teachings of Zen include various sources of Mahāyāna thought, including Prajna-paramitá literature such as the Prajñá-paramitá-sutra and the teachings of Yogacara and the school tatha-gata-garbha. Zen emerged from different schools of Buddhism and was first recorded in China in the seventh century, then scattered south to Vietnam and east to Korea and Japan. Traditionally it is given the credit of bringing Zen to China to Bodhidharma. ORIGIN OF BUDDHISM ZEN: Like any Buddhist school, Zen has its roots in In

             Los Milagros de Jesús Los Milagros de Jesús de Nazaret -                    Cartilla para Catequistas - Introducción: No es un secreto que a Jesús se le encuentra tan especial y único después de más de dos mil años, que ha logrado dividir nuestro tiempo antes y después de él, por dos razones fundamentales: el mensaje humanizador del Reino de Dios para la formación de nuestras sociedades y los milagros o signos –como los prefiere llamar Juan- de sanación, liberación y exorcismo narrados en los evangelios, que lo  convierten en un personaje interesante, cautivador y atrapante. [1]   (García 2009) Es sobre este personaje histórico que deseo trabajar, y en tan inmensa cantidad de bibliografía que encontramos de Él, me centraré en los milagros como uno de los aspectos que más llaman la atención de quienes se acercan y estudian la vida de Jesús. Probablemente en tu quehacer te has valido de tu fe, el catecismo, los sacram