RELS 393 Lecture 2: 393.2
12 Feb 2019
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Trip to the temple: 12pm on feb 5 at the kuluta centre located at 182 wellington st. Meditation report counts as one of your crs reports. Will be discussion post grade and attendance grade. Week 2: buddhism and modernity and siddhartha by hermann hesse. Transplantation: a very complex process of modernization, globalization, democratization, of building equality. Buddhism goes from india (4-5 bce) to sri lanka, thailand, myanmar, Confucianism), therefore chinese buddhism looks like chinese religion because buddhism adapted to the chinese style of religious practices. India china japan: shinto style, vajrayana (tantra) 8th century builds on the former schools of thought travels to nepal, tibet, bhutan (majorly north asian) When buddhism comes to the west, it encounters the modern world and gets packaged, branded, and marketed as a new product . No concept of evil in buddhism there is concepts of karma, suffering, or unholyness.
