CLASSICS 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Vedic Sanskrit, Rigveda, Indo-Aryan Languages
21 Nov 2017
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Can be done anywhere, anytime or any place. This makes people buddhists who chant and live by this. 19th century is when buddhists discovered each other on a global scale. After the four noble truths it is hard to get buddhists to agree on things. Chant, learn, teach, they won"t eat certain foods, and they go to temples (cid:498)to the buddha ) go for refuge. To the samgha ) go for refuge. (cid:499) (cid:883)(cid:524) don"t steal (cid:884)(cid:524) don"t kill (cid:885)(cid:524) don"t drink. The three jewels: buddha, dharma [darmah], and samgha. The buddha: no elicit sex, not to lie. The jina (the victor(cid:524), arhat, tath gata (cid:523)thus- gone one) (e"s smiling because he knows something we don"t know. Many other buddha"s in other times and in other world- systems. Other people in )ndia also called (cid:498)the buddha(cid:499) Ex(cid:524) the (cid:498)founder(cid:499) of jainism-> mah vira (cid:498)the awakened one(cid:499) Born in 599 b. c. as a prince in bihar, india.
