RS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rinzai School, Yogachara, Gm Family Ii Engine

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RS100
• Professor: Marybeth White

Document Summary

Indo-europeans: groups of pastoralist peoples who migrated from the steppes of asia and founded ancient civilizations in europe, persia and india, magic, attempt to control forces of nature through rituals and incantations, neanderthal, human species ca. 100,000 35,000 years ago with clear archaeological evidence of religious activities: neolithic, period beginning after the last ice age (ca. 10,000 years ago) when planting was discovered and villages and cities founded: paleolithic, old stone age; in the upper paleolithic period (ca. 35,000 10,000 years ago) the modern species of. Homo sapiens sapiens appeared: prehistorical, before written records. Module 3: hinduism part 2: the classical period (400 bce 400 ce, production of new texts, shruti. What is heard sacred more authority: vedas, brahmanas, aranyakans, upanishads, smitri. Sita is kidnapped, rama fights for her back and wins: they return and subjects whisper about sita what she might have been doing.