RELG 252 Lecture Notes - Thomas Rhys Davids, Quran, Brian Houghton Hodgson

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 252
• Professor: Lara Braitstein

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Notes - hinduism and buddhism trial 1 september 6th. Invention of buddhism a class of scholars called orientalists. As a word, it doesn"t really make any sense, until the 19th century, the word didn"t exist. People today would not have used the term buddhist. Taking a look at buddhism, it doesn"t exist in the way that we like things to exist. When we find a term like buddhism, as we think it refers to one thing we can understand, one thing we can study, but the problem is that it is a huge vast variety of texts and studies. When we give it a unitary name, we are looking for , it tends to structure what we are going to perceive. Our expectations create the object that we think we are studying. We think we are looking that"s external, that exists from it own side, we think we are approaching buddhism. Our perception comes from our perception of religion.