HIST 2B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Castle Town, Francis Xavier, Gautama Buddha
20 Mar 2017
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Buddhism: 5th century bce around northern india, buddha born as siddhartha gautama, prince, saw sickness and death, gave up his prince and discovered meaning of life, attained enlightenment- buddha (the awakened one) Concepts in buddhism: samsara- endless rebirth, karma- actions that a person causes leads to future effects, six realms of existence- human, hell etc, four noble truths, escape cycle of rebirth, life is filled with suffering. End to suffering is following a noble path: sangha-buddhist community of monks, buddhism has new element added as time and culture emerges, divisions in buddhism. Theravada buddhism: follows teachings of shakyamuni buddha, centered on becoming a monk to attain awakening, sri lanka, cambodia, burma thailand. Mahayana buddhism: there are many buddhas and bodhisattvas, infinite number of universes and number of buddhas, amitabha buddha- buddha of the western pure land (heaven, directly teach you how to become enlightened, china, korea, japan, vietnam.
