01:840:369 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sui Generis, Impermanence, Early Buddhism
18 Oct 2018
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Sunday, september 30, 2018: the historical buddha is often described as belonging to the indian renouncer tradition. What kinds of activities is a renouncer engaged in? (pg. The renouncer abandons conventional means of livelihood, such as farming or trade, and adopts the religious life as a means of livelihood. Three kinds of activities they participated in: practice of austerities, going naked in all weather, enduring, all physical discomforts, fasting, or undertaking the vow to live like a cow or a dog. Second, there is the cultivation of meditative and contemplative techniques referred to as altered states of consciousness, doing so in order to get deeper knowledge and experience of the nature of the world. Why does the buddhist tradition portray the buddha this way? (pg 44) A buddha is thus a being sui generis: a buddha is just a buddha.
