MMW 11 Chapter Notes - Chapter (HWS 69-75, LA 809-830): Hastinapur, Vedas, Mahayana

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: Page Dubois

Document Summary

Mmw 11 textbook notes (hws 69-75, la 809-830) India"s great religions what ideas and practices were taught by the founders of. 6th and 5th centuries bce cities reappeared in india. Ascetic: willingly undertakes suffering, can dissipate karma, progress to enlightenment. All life sacred: humans -> animals -> plants -> inanimate objects. Clothing a form of attachment, priests nude. Four noble truths: pain, suffering, frustration, anxiety ugly and inescapable; suffering, anxiety caused by human desire and attachment; people can understand weaknesses and triumph them; can triumph through eightfold path. Eightfold path: code of conduct; recognizing suffering, deciding to free selves, choosing right conduct, right speech, right livelihood, right endeavor, right awareness, meditation. Tolerated other religions and even allowed other religious practice alongside it. Sutras: scriptures of buddha written down by students. Mahayana: nagarjuna; more inclusive, reality empty/reality consciousness: bodhisattvas: buddhas-to-be, stayed in world after enlightenment to help others reach it.