Mahayana Buddhism

Asian Behavior and vox populi 10/16/12 Study Guide 7 Mahayana Buddhism 1. What are the four sublime states? 1. innumerable love is related to friendliness. Buddhists cultivate love that is unin condition(p) and unlimited, based on the knowledge that solely are one in the ocean of love. 2. Boundless compassion is the intense fellow feeling one should guard for all living existences who suffer through pain, anxiety, ignorance and illusion. 3. Sympathetic joy- moves one to seek out happiness and successfulness of others and rejoice with them. . Equanimity is the sense of nonattachment to self and to the world that the arhat achives by find outing the path of fracture and rooting out all desire and clinging. 2. What is Early Buddhisms view of material well- world? Buddhist vision for society is the fundamental principle that all types of people are equal and that honor depends not on circumstances of birth but on moral and spiritual achievement?. ( is this the answer) 3. How do es the ethical emotional state of lay persons compare with that of monks and nuns?Lay people There are many scriptures that spell out mulish guidance and concrete disciplines for the good life. There are five percepts that leads the good life of compassion, love and fulfillment. foremost percept is the principle of nonviolence concept expands not except to homophiles but also to animals. second percept is not to steal concept expands to avoild all forms of cheating, dishonest dealings to gain advantage everyplace the others etc. 3rd percept is refrain from wrongful sexual relation concept expands to be get hitched with and have sexual intercourse in the right way. th percept is refrain from wrongful barbarism that would cause others hatred, enmity, & dishmarmony. And 5th 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 attachments that characterize life for lay people. They have 10 percepts. 1. Taking life, 2. Not stealing. 3. Sexual misconduct 4. Lying. 4. Drugs and liquor 5. Drugs and liquor 6. Earing after noon 7. Watching shows, render and dancing 8. Using adornments of perfumes etc. 9.Sleeping in a high bed and 10. Handling gold or silver. 4. Outline an overview of the general spread of Buddhism through Asia. Theravada (ways of elders) came to be dominant in South Asia and South eastern hemisphere Asia (especially in Srilanka). Mahayana (greater vehicle one reaching the goal was being broadened to include others, even 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 the one r eaching the goal was being broadened to include others even laypeople. Al can be equally on the path toward achieveing Buddhahood While Theravada(early Buddhism) but foc utilize on original teachings of the Buddha. 6. In Mahayana Buddhism what is a bodhisattva? Bodhisattva- being who is intent on becoming to the full enlightened in Mahayana Buddhism, one who reaches enlightenment but vows to continvue rebirths in samsara to assist others. 7. How does the conception of Buddha change?The Mahayana aggroup expanded the conception of who or what the Buddha is. They emphasized that Buddha is really 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 honesty. 8. What is the relation of nirvana to samsara? heaven is freedom from samsara and therefore, is a permanent, unconditioned state. Nirvana is not in any sense like God but Nirvana is a reality experienced within as it were a state of uncon ditioned freedom. 9What are the meaning of emptiness (shunyata) and suchness (tathata)?void is actually the common predicate of all dharmas. Emptiness means 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 akin as the truth of dependent co-arising. Mahaynnists point out that not only are all conditioned dharmas unfilled 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 unload focusing on worship of AMitabha Budhha, with hope of reincarnation pureland paradise. Amitabha heavenly Buddha who presides over the pure land Buddha region Chan school of meditation Buddhism in China, Korea. Zen important school of meditation Buddhism in japan genus Lotus Sutra imp. Early scriptures ofMahayana Buddhism . Vajrajana Damond Vehicle, tantric tradition of Buddhism especially in Tibet and Japan. Mandala painting 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. Tantric Buddhists actively operate with their feelings, emotions and imagination. For example, during meditatio n they will 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 often thought to be living gods Dalai Lama head of the Geluk Tibetain Buddhist school, traditionally recognized as spiritual and political leader of Tibetans.