REL-1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kamakura Shogunate, Media Culture, Zazen
Document Summary
Monasteries allowed for learning and specialized knowledge: useful for politics. Moral utility of buddhist practice: had a pragmatic effect, when lay people attempted to follow the three basic, beginning principles of the. Eightfold path, it made for a more peaceful society, more cooperative. Monasteries centralized spiritual power: drew lay people for healing and rebirth, encouraged lay people to make donations to support monasteries. Conceptualized buddhism as the cultural and moral foundation of political unity. Buddhis(cid:373)"s own innovations and successes formed competitors in other religions in india. Religious centers of power and civilization persist. Moral utility: seen by political leaders in different parts of asia. Diverse trajectories: theravada in south asia, mahayana in china, vietnam, korea, and japan, vajrayana in tibet. Oneness of life: to glassman, this is what life is about, anatman (no self) If there is no self, then what holds us together. Notion of skandas composition of perceptions and characteristics and traits about a person.
