literatures, religions, and arts of the himalayn region
Lewis P. Lawson
Collegiate School
Richmond, Virginia
Incorporating the Himalayas Through Classical Texts
        Strategies, Lesson Plans, and the Pa-Ku Wen-Chang
                    ( The Chinese Eight-Legged Essay)

 

CREATIVE WRITIG PIECE

     You are an introspective person who seeks reconciliation in a torn, fragmented world of different religions, politics, and races. In the tradition of Confucius, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Moses, Jesus, Mohammad, and others, you are to write a religious manifesto which will renounce the hatreds and divisions of the past. Your new "religion" should bring healing to all the ills which separate people and create hatred and exploitation in life. In verbalizing your religious creed of unification and harmony, draw upon the many ideas you have synthesized from the teachings of The I Ching, Confucius, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Zoraster, The Upanishads and others.  
        
In essence, like all the great religions, most myths, and aphoristic stories, your new creedo should create a metaphor, a code, or an approach for people that will allow them to find harmony and meaning in a discorded world and serve as a model for people to be moral and good.

    


                   

This site was created by Lewis P. Lawson at the NEH Summer Institute "Literatures, Religions, and Arts of the Himalayan Region," held at the College of the Holy Cross, Summer 2008.