RELIGST 2I03 Study Guide - Rhetorical Device, Brahmin

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2I03
• Professor: Joe Larose

Document Summary

Corresponding readings: the buddha makes his case for the homeless life. The buddha makes his case for the homeless life. I want to say just one more thing about the buddha biography we read. We will see, when we read more canonical material, that the tradition does have significant difficulties over female renunciation. They are considered by the tradition to be the words of the buddha an enlightened, infallible being. The acts of the buddha was written by a vagho a, who was probably a court poet. The text was likely written as a way of promoting buddhism to the court this highly literate text was written as a way of demonstrating that buddhism could compete with any other tradition at the highest level. Note about p li/sanskrit (dharma/dhamma, k atriya/khattiya, rya/ariya: the first one is called s ma aphala sutta the teaching on the fruits of the homeless life.