RL ST 001 Lecture 3: RLST001: Buddhism Class Lecture
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Introduction: buddhism is oldest religion, buddhism is to asian culture as christianity is to, many ways to be a good buddhist (like hinduism) =collection of books: oldest scriptures where the memorized material is written, canon, pali, 50 volumes in length, each hundreds of pages, divided into 3 main sections. : means perfection (in sanskrit) means to have as a goal (in sanskrit) (a)means one whose goal is perfection: he is a person (he is human); he is not a god. He is considered to be extraordinary (has a lot of capabilities: born in a mountain kingdom north of india (nepal today) (1)his father was the king of the kingdom of which. This way, he (c) father brought in the best teachers to teach his son, gave him everything money could buy ( provided everything his son could wish for) . Siddhartha got married within palace, and had a son. (i)
