REL 2300 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Theravada, Four Noble Truths, Lotus Position
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I: listing (a set of 3 or more for each) Student: spiritual training starts with an initiation ceremony where a young boy receives a sacred thread a cord of three threads to be worn across the chest from the left shoulder. Householder: marry, raise a family, and contribute to society. Retirement: slow withdraw into semi-retirement, starting to detach from worldly pursuits and to turn to meditation and scriptural study. Renunciation: approx. ate of 75; withdraw completely from society and become a sannyasin a renunciate spiritual speaker; self-exile. Priest & scholar: philosophers, specialists in the life of the spirit (brahmin) Life inevitably involves suffering, is imperfect and unsatisfactory (dukkha) There is a way to realize this state: the noble eightfold path the reality we crave is not real. Untouchables: remove human wastes and corpses, sweeping streets, work with leather from. Convergence of rivers 2 is sacred, 3 is most sacred (ganges @ allahabad)
