RELG 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dharma, Bodh Gaya, Sitar
10 Feb 2016
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Relg 201: intro. to world religions film worksheet. The life of the buddha bbc documentary (http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=kee8hi6g0gy: people debate, or differ, as to whether buddhism is a religion, a philosophy, a. Psychotherapy/psychology, or a science of _________________: the buddha descended from tushita heaven in the form of a/an. ___________________________: the buddha"s father, king suddhodana, summoned a fortuneteller/soothsayer to examine the body of his newborn son. ___________ marks on siddhartha"s body, including a dharma ______________ on the soles of his feet: when siddhartha was young, he fell into his first meditative trance during a plowing/harvesting festival. Siddhartha is dismayed to discover that after death, we are all reborn to suffer and die time and time again. There seemed no end and no solution to life"s miserable and inevitable cycle. : __________________ Why should anyone want to give up the pleasures of the world and wander the countryside begging? : a new wave of thinkers began to challenge brahmanism.
