RELG 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Four Noble Truths, Gautama Buddha, Vajrayana
22 May 2019
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Emerged from hinduism, like how christianity came from judaism. Born into a life of luxury in a palace. The four sights that changed his life old age, illness, death, and holy man. He then gave up his life of luxury and sought enlightenment from a guru and asceticism, eventually finding it by watching an act of compassion by a peasant girl compassion is the main part of buddhism. Mahayana - china, kora, japan, vietnam, cambodia. Based on secret teachings of the buddha. Buddha seen as cosmic and eternal being: theistic. Tanha - the origin of suffering is attachment and craving. It is about balance, not necessarily giving everything up. Anatman , the mundane ego that unenlightened people mistake as their true selves. Seeks to clarify the holism in light of ecological concerns. Huayan as a responses offers an alternative that combines the two (p. [there will be a final exam question on buddhist cosmology]
