RELG 101 Lecture Notes - North Asia, Mahayana, Turnitin
26 Feb 2013
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China and tibet short paper: due friday 15th on turnitin. 750-1000 words, use the textbook interpretation of a primary source use online sources we are given (readings in eastern religions) argue for or against a certain understanding/position bring a potential source to discussion on friday. Texts from these schools are mixed, look at intro for primary source key philosophical concepts. There"s no one self (eg. there"s no one part of a chariot that is its essence) Also said this about small things, eg. there"s no woodness" in one molecule of. No-self, emptiness, must be beyond language, since we tend to assign an essence to things when we name them. Collapse of the world of suffering (samsara) and (nirvana) into one, nondual, reality! Subject and object aren"t two things; you are one nondual thing. I"m not viewing the desk, the desk is viewing me. Samsara can"t actually be a thing separate from nirvana.
