RELI 2732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Blacklight, Exhalation, Radiance
17 Apr 2017
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In contrast to the hindu teaching on the eternal, unchanging atman (soul, the higher. Buddhism teaches anatman (no soul) no permanent, unchanging aspect to the person. Any idea of an eternal unchanging part to the person is just illusion or ction. Still there is rebirth according to karma. There is no what that exists now, so there is no what to be reborn. The human person, body and mind, is regarded as continually owing along changing at every moment, like a river. Went south to sri lanka, al through south east asia, into china, korea, japan. 3 major divisions of buddhist types: theravada practiced in sri lanka, thailand, myanmar. The only remaining school of buddhism that represents some of the earliest. Monday, march 13, 2017: mahayana practiced in china, japan, vietnam. Many schools and sects (zen buddhism: vajrayana practiced in tibet, ladakh, nepal also known as tantric buddhism. Understanding death in this division, takes us into texts called bardo thodol.
