Home›Cosmological Beliefs›Obligation›ObligatoryBrowse ByObligatoryThis page groups beliefs by whether a tradition requires adherents to hold them. Wikipedia notes one live philosophical debate asks "what is the rational way to revise one's beliefs when presented with various sorts of evidence?" Browsing by obligation lets a visitor tell a required belief from one merely tolerated within a tradition.FactsLearn MoreObligatorySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedStatements about the structure and history of the world and its beings - creation, world ages, the shape of the cosmos, the fate of the dead - held as articles of a tradition rather than as speculation. The accounts gathered here answer different questions: an origin of the world and a recurring destruction of it are not the same kind of claim. 2StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedA standard analytic category in the study of religion 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedBeliefs & Restrictions 1Learn MoreThe Cosmological Beliefs This group gathers cosmological beliefs, the teachings of the traditions about the structure, origin and destiny of the cosmos: how the world came to be, how it is ordered, and how it will end. Every tradition frames human life within some such account of the whole. The browser will find the cosmological beliefs the atlas gathers. The entries describe each in its own terms, reporting the tradition's own account rather than reconciling the many differing pictures.ObligatoryFilter Results17 entriesStatus Within the TraditionAllA minority position within the tradition (1)Binding, without a formal definition (10)Genuinely disputed within the tradition (1)Rejected, or not held, within this tradition (2)Standard teaching, not formally defined (6)Origin Period Start YearAll-700 (1)150 (1)500 (1)Affirmation OfAllAnatta (1)Anekantavada (1)Dependent origination (1)Karma (1)Sunyata (1)Category of BeliefAllCore Tenets (3)Cosmological Beliefs (8)TraditionAllDigambara (1)Gaudiya Vaishnavism (1)Gelug (6)ISKCON (Hare Krishna) (1)Jehovah's Witnesses (1)Jodo Shinshu (4)Jonang (5)Kagyu (5)Karma Kagyu (5)Kashmir Shaivism (1)Khalsa (1)Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) (1)Lingayatism (1)Madhyamaka (6)Mahayana (5)Nath Sampradaya (1)Nichiren (4)Nichiren Shoshu (4)Nirmala (1)Nyingma (5)Palo Mayombe (1)Pure Land (4)Rinzai (5)Sakya (5)Samkhya (1)Seventh-day Adventism (1)Shaivism (1)Shaktism (1)Shingon (5)Shri Vidya (1)Smartism (2)Soka Gakkai (4)Soto (5)Sri Vaishnavism (1)Svetambara (1)Tendai (5)Theravada (4)Tiantai (5)Tibetan Buddhism (5)Udasi (1)Vaishnavism (1)Vajrayana (5)Zen (5)SubjectAllDeath, rebirth and destiny (5)Human nature (2)Knowledge and reason (2)Ritual and worship (1)The cosmos and creation (3)The nature of the divine (4)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 17A person carries a ka, the vital force needing offerings after death, and a ba, the mobile aspect of self that can leave the tomb and move between the dead and the living.ObligatoryAdvaita Vedanta (nondualism)ObligatoryAll phenomena lack intrinsic nature (svabhava)ObligatoryAnatta: no permanent selfObligatoryAncestors continue to watch over and can bless or punish their living descendantsObligatoryAnekantavada (many-sidedness of truth)ObligatoryBondyeObligatoryConditional immortality (annihilationism)ObligatoryDependent origination (pratitya-samutpada)ObligatoryDo Ut Des: I Give So That You May GiveObligatoryEmptiness (sunyata)ObligatoryEternal progression and exaltationObligatoryFate Binds Even the GodsObligatoryGenius and Juno: The Indwelling Spirit of a PersonObligatoryHamingja: Luck as an Inheritable ResourceObligatoryImpermanence (anicca)ObligatoryKarma: action determines future rebirthObligatorySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005s.v. CosmologyView the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.