REL-1020 Midterm: World Rels Review 2
Document Summary
Reader: confucianism, daoism, buddhism (mahayana and east asian buddhism) All powerpoint slides, lectures/discussions and documentary videos assigned during this unit. Focus especially on the following primary sources found in both text & reader: East asian buddhism: the lotus sutra: parable of the burning house, and the section in the reader called chinese and japanese buddhist scriptures (shinran, dogen) Confucian in morning, daoism in afternoon, and buddhist at death. Little mention of common people in these oracle bones (common people probably practice folk religion) Only shang kings could worship shangdi because it was their ancestor. Veneration from the king to the kings ancestor. Then things will go well: zhou dynasty religion, zhou dynasty (c. 1046, the highest divine reality is tian. Tian (similar to heaven but not a location) heaven above, has a personality and a will, this is not somebody"s ancestor, heaven over everyone.
