Mahayana Buddhism

Asian Behavior and Thought 10/16/12 Study Guide 7 Mahayana Buddhism 1. What atomic number 18 the four deluxe states? 1. Boundless love is related to friendliness. Buddhists cultivate love that is limitless and unlimited, ground on the knowledge that every(prenominal) are one in the nautical of love. 2. Boundless compassion is the intense fellow feeling one should nominate for all in all living beings who suffer by dint of pain, anxiety, ignorance and illusion. 3. Sympathetic joy- moves one to try out happiness and prosperity of opposites and rejoice with them. . Equanimity is the sense of nonattachment to self-importance and to the world that the arhat achives by following the path of transformation and grow out all desire and clinging. 2. What is betimes Buddhisms view of solid well-being? Buddhist vision for society is the fundamental principle that all types of people are equal and that honor depends not on pile of birth but on moral and spiritual achievement?. ( i s this the answer) 3. How does the respectable life of lay persons compare with that of monks and nuns?Lay people There are many scriptures that spell out practical guidance and concrete disciplines for the up indemnify life. There are five percepts that leads the good life of compassion, love and fulfillment. maiden percept is the principle of nonviolence image expands not save to human but also to animals. 2nd percept is not to steal imagination expands to avoild all forms of cheating, dishonest dealings to gain advantage over the others and so forth 3rd percept is refrain from wrongful sexual relation concept expands to be married and have sexual intercourse in the right way. th percept is refrain from wrongful speech that would cause others hatred, enmity, & dishmarmony. And fifth percept is refrain from drugs and liquor because it can cause breaking of other percepts. Monks and nuns has to follow high level of detachment from those material, economic and social atta chments that specify life for lay people. They have 10 percepts. 1. Taking life, 2. Not stealing. 3. cozy misconduct 4. Lying. 4. Drugs and liquor 5. Drugs and liquor 6. Earing after noon 7. Watching shows, tattle and dancing 8. Using adornments of perfumes etc. 9.Sleeping in a high hit the sack and 10. Handling gold or silver. 4. Outline an overview of the general spread of Buddhism by Asia. Theravada (ways of elders) came to be dominant in South Asia and South east Asia (especially in Srilanka). Mahayana (greater vehicle one reaching the terminal was being broadened to include others, evening lay people) Buddhisim spreaded throughout the lands of East Asia ( monks and missionaries brought Buddhism to China than from China it spreaded to Vietnam, Korea and Japan). Vahrayana (diamond vehicle or tantrism) was accepted in Tibet and 1 Japanese Buddhist school. 5.How is Mahayana Buddhism distinguished from Early Buddhism. Mahayana discarded the narrower concept of the arhat as th e one reaching the goal was being broadened to include others even laypeople. Al can be evenly on the path toward achieveing Buddhahood While Theravada(early Buddhism) only focused on true teachings of the Buddha. 6. In Mahayana Buddhism what is a bodhisattva? Bodhisattva- being who is intent on becoming full enlightened in Mahayana Buddhism, one who reaches enlightenment but vows to continvue rebirths in samsara to do others. 7. How does the conception of Buddha change?The Mahayana group expanded the conception of who or what the Buddha is. They emphasize that Buddha is heartyly the eternal power of the Dharma and that this Dharma body of Buddha is universal. Dharma body is the only real body of Buddha and it is ultimate reality. 8. What is the relation of nirvana to samsara? Nirvana is freedom from samsara and thitherfore, is a permanent, unconditioned state. Nirvana is not in any sense bid God but Nirvana is a reality experienced inwardly as it were a state of unconditione d freedom. 9What are the meaning of vacuum (shunyata) and suchness (tathata)?Emptiness is actually the common predicate of all dharmas. Emptiness delegacy the absence of own being, where own being means something existing through its own power and having an immutable essence. So emptiness is really the comparable as the truth of dependent co-arising. Mahaynnists point out that not only are all conditioned dharmas empty but also the unconditioned reality of nirvana is empty. This leads to the idea that both Nirvana and samsara is empty there is no difference btw them. Suchness is seeing the world as it really is. Karuna Buddhist ideal of compassionPure Land focusing on worship of AMitabha Budhha, with hope of conversion pureland paradise. Amitabha supernal Buddha who presides over the pure land Buddha realm Chan school of hypothesis Buddhism in China, Korea. Zen important school of meditation Buddhism in lacquer Lotus Sutra imp. Early scriptures ofMahayana Buddhism. Vajra jana Damond Vehicle, tantric tradition of Buddhism especially in Tibet and Japan. Mandala flick of cosmic Buddhas or a symbolice cosmos, used especially in Vajrayana Buddhist ritual and meditation. Dharma teachings of budhha ependent co-arising (dependent origination) central Buddhist teaching that everything is conditioned by something else, that all reality is interdependent. Three Bodies (Trikaya) Dharma body universal Buddha essence. Bliss Body heavenly Buddhas and Transformation body human manifestations of Buddha. Mahavairocana great sun Buddha IITuesday, October 23. Tibetan Buddhism. In class video The Reincarnation of Khensur Rinpoche Read Ch. 6 pp. 103, 106-108. Iyer Pico on the Dalai genus Lama (on Blackboard). 2nd ed. Ch. 6 95, 98-100 1. What are some of the special characteristics of Tibetan Buddhism?The religious specialists were the lamas. Tantrik Buddhists actively engage with their feelings, emotions and imagination. For example, during meditation they wil l imagine what it was like to be the Buddha in a certain place or time. 2. Based on Pico Iyers presentation, how would you describe the Dalai Lama? 3. What stands out most to you personally in Iyers presentation? Why? Lama spiritual masters practically thought to be living gods Dalai Lama head of the Geluk Tibetain Buddhist school, traditionally recognized as spiritual and political leader of Tibetans.