Religion assignment

Buddhism_1_A.pptx

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