Religious Studies 1023E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jataka Tales, Shakya, Gotra

• School: Western University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: Religious Studies 1023E
• Professor: Jonathan Geen

Document Summary

Non-hindu religions also existing during late vedic period: religion and culture differ, people could choose there own path. Shramanas (english translation=strivers: many different shramana leaders. Shramanas &brahmins constantly competed: many shared ideas between vedic tradition and magadhan religion. Reason that they share basic ideas is because one was influenced by the other (don"t know who originally created these ideas: shramanas vs. Buddha lived his entire life during the 5th century bce (499-400 bce) Buddha steered in the direction of the shramanas, didn"t invent shramanas, just joined them and became one of the most influential ones. Can find incomplete bits of the buddha"s biography in the earliest sources o. Closest we"re going to get to a historical understanding of who the buddha was. 1st century ce buddhist monks started to make complete biographies of the buddha: buddha is not longer depicted as a normal human being, go into the realm of mythology.