RELS 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Songtsen Gampo, Chogyal, Chinese Buddhism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 223
• Professor: Ellen Goldberg

Document Summary

Great place to do meditating meditating in the mountains. Majority of people live in the vas. When we look at china, buddhism travelled to india and china through the silk trade routes. Some of the greatest rivers in asia flow through tibet. China saw tibet as being so significant for their future. When a religion comes to new land: assimilation and synthesis the longer buddhism stays there, it becomes assimilated they meet new religions, values etc, and it transplants into this new religion. There is initially some sort of conflict: innovation (re-interpretation) Buddhism in tibet: stage 1: encounter or contact between foreign religion and host culture. The place: the snow clad himalayan region. King songtsen gampo married two princess, one from china and one from nepal. The process of transmission and translation is pivotal. Buddhist texts can be carried from one place to another, and then you can have them translated. We can convey and pass on teachings of dharma.