RELIGST 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Shinran, Jiriki, Kinnara
16 Mar 2017
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Week 10 the spread of buddhism to east asia. Week ten goals to understand some developments as buddhism spread to. East asia, e. g. : tiantai(chinese)/tendai (japanese) buddhism earliest east asian school, chan/zen buddhism (tath(cid:407)gatagarbha = buddha nature ) (sudden vs gradual enlightenment, pureland buddhism (the decline of the dharma) It traveled through the silk road, it became quite active and opened up for steady active trade around the common era. Just as the mahayana authors are writing these new texts and ideas, the silk road opens up and it travels up to east asia, into central asia and then into china. We know it was in china for sure in the second half of the common era (170 c. e. ). India wasn"t good at recording history but china has a much older historical record than south asia. Buddhism changed and became a different type everywhere it went. There is a validity to all of these changes.
