RELIGST 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jetavana, Maurya Empire, Vinaya

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2K03
• Professor: Joe Larose

Document Summary

Week 6 - growth of buddhism & emergence of mahayana. Week six goals to understand the growth of buddhism in the early period (~500 bce to the turn of the common. Era) to u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d the reaso(cid:374)s (cid:271)ehi(cid:374)d the e(cid:373)erge(cid:374)(cid:272)e of the mah (cid:455) (cid:374)a; the second turning of the wheel (around the turn of the common era) The big developments, 500 bce 0: origi(cid:374)s (cid:894)the buddha (cid:271)iograph(cid:455), j takas(cid:895, support and growth (numbers and geography, systematization and sectarianism (the canon, the councils, the 18 schools) institutionalization (the monastery, refor(cid:373) (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts? (cid:894)the mah (cid:455) (cid:374)a(cid:895) Support and growth the monastic community survived by conversion, by the spiritual growth that the monastic community provides to the laypeople, and by the material necessities of life that the laypeople provide to the monastic community. A(cid:374) thapi ada a rich merchant in early buddhist literature who donated land for the buddhist monastery at jetavana: literary figure.