RELG 253 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nianfo, Shinran, Mahayana

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 253
• Professor: Lisa M.Blake, Jingjing Li

Document Summary

It"s ok to have more to say on emptiness, still try to make it a bit balanced. Start off with a layout of mahayana- what is emptiness (sunyata). Can also include a general overview of bodhisattva. Focus on developing practices of two schools. How to they allow the practitioner to understand the concepts of emptiness and. Bodhisattva compassion= way to reach that point. The pure land: place of liberation, enlightenment. Somewhere people can go to forget about chaos and duties of life, in order to focus on achieving enlightenment. You can be reborn here when you die, if you have done your practice well. Tariki: reliance on the power of amida buddha or bodhisattva compassion. Shinran: can speak about briefly, important figure in pure land. Buddha"s teachings are so far from us now, entrusting in some other. Relates to emptiness because if you chant her name over and over again, there is a loss in the sense of self.