Religion assignment
Buddhism in Asia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Buddhist_Expansion.svg
The Beginnings
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ancient_india.png
Languages and Texts
Vedic 1200 BCE ritual hymns; poetry
Sanskrit (S) 800 BCE myths, philosophy, grammar; prose
Pāli (P) 200 CE Inscriptions, Buddhist scriptures
Existence
karma
< √kṛ, do
ritual, rite, deed
saṃsāra < saṃ √sṛ, flow, move the cycle of death and rebirth conditioned by karma
http://www.lycaeum.org/beausoleil/8/28.html
brāhmaṇa vs śramaṇa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homa_(ritual)#/media/File:Yajna1.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanishads#/media/File:Raja_Ravi_Varma_-_Sankaracharya.jpg
Monist Reality
ātman, self
the innermost core of being, unborn, eternal and unchanging
brahman, hymn
the phenomenal world in its totality, unborn, eternal and unchanging
ātman = brahman
phenomenologist reality
anātman (S), anattā (P), non-self
self is a conventional term with no actual referent
pratītyasamutpāda (S) paṭiccasamuppāda (P)
< pratītya, dependent + samutpāda, origination
all phenomena mutually depend on each other for their existence with no single origin
anitya (S), anicca (P), impermanence
therefore, there is no eternal existence, all is subject to change and transiency
Milinda and Nāgasena
http://www.payer.de/buddhpsych/psych022.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milinda_Panha#/media/File:Menander_portrait.jpg
Menander - Indo-Greek King