ASNS 1150 Lecture Notes - Haeinsa, Gautama Buddha, Longmen Grottoes

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Asian Studies
• Course: ASNS 1150
• Professor: Philip Thai

Document Summary

Senso-ji: japan (pagodas) - made out of wood. Haeinsa: korea ~ houses a large collection of sutras - made out of stone. Buddhist statues in bamiyan, afghanistan - destroyed by the taliban in 2001 (was the largest stone statue) Tang dynasty, 618-907 buddhism becomes mainstream in china. Spreads from west to east (india - japan) First buddha: born in a royal family siddhartha gautama. Was unhappy with his life even when surrounded by so many people with such a lavish lifestyle. Sutras mostly written in sanskrit had to be translated into chinese and other languages (took a long time) "little" buddhas (bodhisatvas) - like saints they have been enlightened but choose. Japanese: bukkyo: chinese: ( ) fo2jiao4, korean: bulgyo, resistance to buddhism. Mouzi believe that confucianism & buddhism could both be accepted. Converted from confucianism to buddhism: foreign origins. The writers of confucius don"t contain everything: challenges to confucian orthodoxy.