RELI 2732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stupa, Himalayas, Gautama Buddha
15 Mar 2016
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Buddhism rejects hinduisms idea of an eternal soul or an unchanging essence: there is rebirth but no soul, it is the rebirth of consciousness, this is a struggle for many to understand including buddhists. Therefore some folk buddhist religions do accept the idea of the soul. Rejects the idea of a universal, uncaused enity such as the judo/chrisian idea of god or the. Hindu idea of brahman: buddhism has many gods, but they are not eternal, nor are they uncaused", anything that comes into beings, must pass away, no being caused the universe without being caused itself. He who comes and goes in accordance with reality": he was born the son of a tribal chietain in one of the tribes that occupied the foot hills of one of the himalayan mountains. In lumbini: it was foretold when he was an infant that if he remained in the world, he would become a great ruler.
