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Maury Johnson
Doctor Thomas Myladil

Advanced, Factual, and Insightful Guide on the Main Religions of Death and Afterlife
Chinese Religions
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Ghosts
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Ancestors
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What are the three Chinese Religions?
The three Chinese religions are:
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Buddhism
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How is Confucianism seen as?
Confucianism is sometimes seen as a philosophy
more than a religion
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The person should enjoy their life and the afterlife
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What are the Yin and Yang?
Yin and Yang are the two forces of the universe
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Both forces are needed in life and they complement
each other
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The examples of the Yin force is:
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Female
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Passive
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Intuitive
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Soft
The examples of the Yang force is:
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Male
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Active
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Logical
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Hard

These forces determine the makeup of the soul
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Life and death boundaries are intertwined
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They believed in the health and wealth of a person
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They were concerned for the afterlife of a person’s soul
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What are the Two Souls? The two souls are:
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The Po soul, which resides on the earth or in the grave
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The Po soul stays on earth
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What did the Chinese believe happened in Dreams? What was the Issue? How was
it Solved?
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b
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c
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They
praised it, supplied it, and included it in family activities like dinner
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What happened after they accumulated Many Tablets? After three generations of
ancestors, they added it to the collection of the ancestors
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What was Yellow Springs? Why was it an Idea? What Idea came next?
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Hui Tzu went to convey his
condolences to Chuang Tzu
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Hui was
surprised, but Chuang told him, “Just like the change of seasons, her death is only a
transition
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Yang Shen is the preservation of the body in health
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The Taoists follow this
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What was the Tai-Chi-Ch’uan?
Tai-Chi-Ch’uan was the practice of macrobiotic
diet, fasting, massage, meditation, breath control, sex, and forms of exercises for
longevity of life
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What was Transcendence? What did it entail? Who Proposed this?
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b
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Most Chinese people believed that they had an obligation to preserve the deceased
relative’s body in the grave and keep their Hun soul inside of their tablet
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They took care of the corpse in the grave and after death
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What did they do to keep the Soul in the Body? They put apertures on the body to
stop leakage of the Po soul
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What is Feng-Shui? Feng-Shui is the science of positioning the graves and coffins to
ensure that the soul can empower and sustain health and success of the family
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What did they adopt to help the Suffering Soul? Which Religions?

Later

Buddhism and Taoism adopted that the living can alleviate the pain of those in hell
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What was it called? What is the Definition?
This was called Bodhisattva, which
is the notion that compassion should be given for the salvation of all suffering beings
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What did the Chinese believe the Dead should get?
Chinese people believed in
the burial of supplies with the dead
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What was the Mu-Lin story?
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Her
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The two sons who journeyed were asked to drink a glass of wine to symbolize the

pool of blood that the mother’s blood had defiled the earth and their birth
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Since the mother suffered in birth she released them from suffering in hell
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What is the Buddhism Goal?
Buddhism speaks of a final salvation, which
required recognition of the nonexistence of the soul
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Jiu-Shen is a meat body, which was a Buddhist monk who sacrifices their body by
going to an underground chamber where they were given supplies until they
refused the, and then they were left to die by suffocation from burning embers
thrown inside
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Their bodies were worshipped at shrines
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They wrapped, exhumed, and lacquered the body and placed them in a temple or
pageda
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What is P’eng-Lai? The most famous belief of where the souls went was P’eng-Lai
was the isles of the blest
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Heaven had a government and hell had a prison system
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The sinful were tortured until their confessed their sins
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Karma affected where someone could end up
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In heaven a wrong action could result in rebirth or hell
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What was another Goal? Who Proposed this Alternative?

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It is not a paradise, but an environment of Nirvana, which is the extinction of
desires
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The pure land is the pure
mind, which is Amitabh Buddha
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Death and Afterlife Perspectives of World Religions
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