RELIGST 2VV3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pure Land

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2VV3
• Professor: Shannon Carter

Document Summary

However vast majority of people who are buddhist would disagree: difference between normative and description, just go and explore it, almost all japanese temple priests are married and have families. Most are run by a temple family usually taken over by a son. They don"t own it so if son doesn"t take over they would have to leave. 1-2% are run by women: training can range from 3 years or more in a monastery. Most zen priests are not doing anything like that when they return to the temples: twice as many temples as convenient stores, biographies of non-eminent monks. It"s a play: monks that wold light themselves on fire, village in china, thieves are coming to take these children and a. Buddhist monk goes and offers his organs to them so they would leave the children alone. If you go somewhere in japan you have to take a small gift for the priests.