CHN 101- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 38 pages long!)
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Vedic culture cont: home sacrifices to benefit family performed by senior male, usually food/ burnt items etc, home sacrifice is key to vedic culture// wealthy family hire. Buddha: brahmans gain more political power, much flux in society, religion of renunciation : ascetics . Celibates and religious hermits (muni) in late. Vedic period cults of renunciation grow: ~600bce // renunciation promises release from rebirth cycles, (ajivkas) some taught idea of inalterable fate, other taught that all. Karma built up film/ consequence in soul and taught non-action (jains: buddha created a middle way, siddartha gautama: prince by birth in costal kingdom shakya (cid:4001) (cid:15910) bce(cid:15911) . He left the palace and became wandering beggar and began to join other spiritual individuals and meditating and contemplating karma, dharma n. 4 noble truths: life consists of suffering, suffering has causes, the cause of suffering can be extinguished, there is a way to extinguish the cause of suffering.
