CAS RN 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sky Burial, Impermanence, Fierce Deities
15 Mar 2016
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Same sense of samsara, cycle driven by karma as hinduism, but a different notion of self. Buddhist self : an-atman- no permanent underlying substance called the self, instead the self is a cluster of mental and physical components that are always changing, when the person dies these factors break apart and disappear. Liberation from samsara (cycle of birth and death) Hinduism- union w/brahman, the divine substrate of the universe your self is not different from brahman, it"s the liberation from the cycle of birth and death and one"s worldly conception of self. Buddhism- nirvana one is no longer producing karma bc u are no longer being driven by desires and misunderstandings (such as the belief that you are a fixed autonomous unchanging self) Tibetan buddhism: the book of the dead. A series of texts describing different teachings that you are saying to a person who has just dies and is about to go into the afterlife.
