RELIG 205 Study Guide - Bodh Gaya, Engaged Buddhism, Mahayana
30 Oct 2014
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Wealth gotten by lawful means, good renown in society, long life, birth in heaven. Four good deeds: make family, friends happy, ensure security against worldly dangers, makes offerings to family, friends, gods, and ghosts, support worthy religious people. Bodh gaya-site of shakyamuni buddha"s enlightenment under a tree. Bodhisattva-buddha to be, in present or future life. Buddha-litterally one who has awakened; one who will enter nirvana. Dependent coarising/organization-12 part formula explaining how individuals are bound to future rebirth until desire and ignorance. Engaged buddhism-reformist movement among global buddhists seeking to relate the teachings to contemporary suffering. Koan-a buddhist riddle designed to foster spiritual growth, posed by monastic teacher to junior monks. Lotus sutra-one of our earliest and influential mahayana buddhist text, which reveals the cosmological nature of a buddha. Madhyamska-a mahayana philisophical school that posits the provisional + incomplete nature of ad assortions. Maitri-loving-kindness, a buddhist ethical virtue + topic of meditation.
