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Buddhism
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Common Rituals | -life activities can be karmically good, bad, neutral -all rituals are merit-making opportunities -internalizes Eight Fold Path, thus assisting Karma |
| Buddha Day (Vesak) | -Lunar holiday that celebrates Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana -traceable to Ashoka's Kingdom, large street fairs, celebrations, Dana |
| Uposatha | Buddhists Day of Observance |
| Theravada | generally practiced once per week |
| Mahayana | generally practiced six times per month |
| Dana | -focuses on opposite of major mental attachment -trains fro steadiness and flexibility |
| Vipassana: Meditation/Prayer practice | -continual focus on impermanence, anatman, and dukkha -instills four Noble Truths |
| Zen Buddhism | -Zazen (sitting meditation) -Dogens Meditation Instructions--> settle posture, regulate breathing |
| Mahayana: building set up | -Shrine room w/ drum -Hall of 10,000 Buddhas -Bell and offering table -Guardians/ Heroes at the entrances -Back: Library, Abbot, and Ancestral Shrine |
| Pure Land Buddhism (Mahayana) | -Shrinan and Amida's vow for all -This age requires external help from Amida: Even the virtuous can gain the Pure Land, must let go of ego-power from within |
| Empowerment: Vajrayana | -Laypersons-->temporary monastic vows-transmit grace/karma -Cultivates Bodhicitta |
| White Tara Empowerment: Vajrayana | -Generates/Dissolves Bodhisattva forms -This is called Bodhisattva practice -The Goal is the Path |
| Material Artifact: Kalachakra Mandala | -2D cosmogram representing a 3D stupa -colors and shapes all refer to Buddhists doctrines |
| The Wheelof Buddhism (Moves through Asia) | -spread to Sri Lanka by 3rd century BCE, slowly spread into South East Asiainto 7th century CE and south to Indonesia -Monastics were more important in SE Asia |
| China ( A New Buddhist Wheel) | -Buddhism undergoes a major historical transformation in China -Chinese considered it foreign and hostile, Mahasamgha Buddhism thus accepted to existing Chinese religion and culture -focus shifts from monks/nuns |
| Mahayana Buddhism comes to Japan | -Buddhism to Japan in 6th CE -Prince Shotoku becomes the early patronage figure and Sutra commentator -Louis Sutra becomes enduring part of Japanese/Chinese Buddhism -Became associated w/ other elements of Japanese religion/ devotion |
| Tantric Wheel in Central Asia | -Tibetans had their own shamanistic nature religion already (physical environment conditioned religion) -Padassambhava got it to stay -5th Dalai Luma unifies country -Accelerated Mahayana, called Vajrayana |
| Venaya | rules of conduct |
| The Four Noble Truths | 1) suffering (dukkha) is inevitable, from pain to grief and loss (unsatisfactory) 2)Suffering arises as the result of Craving 3) It is possible to end Dukkha by ending Trsha 4) It is possible to end Trsha by means of the Noble 8 Fold Path |
| Eight Fold Path | -Right Mindfulness -Right View -Right Intentions -Right Concentration -Right Effort -Right Livelihood -Right Action -Right Speech |
| Pratitya-Samupatra | -everything that arises interdepends on other factors -Anatman: "no self" -when composite qualities act together they give the illusion of a unified soul or being |
| Samyutta-nikaya (connected discourses) | -Five Aggregates (skandas) collate innumerable qualities -no from, feeling or attribute is absolute, yet neither are they completely random |
| Samyutta-Nikaya (connected discourses) pt. 2 | -Karmically conditioned, they are perceived as a collective being, even though there is nothing there but individual momentary Skandas |
| Theravada ( Way of the Elders) | -avoid: drinking, stealing, sexual misconduct, false speech, intoxication |
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