REL-R 153 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gautama Buddha, Four Noble Truths, Dukkha

• School: IU
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: REL-R 153
• Professor: Haberman David

Document Summary

Shramana- is one who renounces the world and leads an ascetic life for the purpose of spiritual development and liberation. Jataka- birth stories; any of the various stories of the former lives of the buddha found in. Nirvana- a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. It represents the nal goal of buddhism ordinary >middle >ascetic (palace) (forest in city) (forest) (monastery) problem: suffering cause: attachment goal: liberation nirvana-enlightenment, awakening path: renunciation-meditation-material wealth contemplation middle way = path of the buddha. 2. ill man: corpse, ascetic/renounces / priest. Suffering affects everyone, the solution will help everyone. Five aggregates (skandhas) form/matter: material or physical nature of things. 1: sensation: physiological process resulting from contact with matter, perceptions: mental discriminations born of sensations; the recognitions of objects, predispositions: impulses, mental formations, ideas, tendencies, consciousness: moments of awareness.