RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Hinayana, Impermanence, Sleep Deprivation

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 253
• Professor: Lisa M.Blake, Jingjing Li

Document Summary

Tama furi shaking the beads or stirring the soul . Many people fighting over becoming the new king (title stripped of divinity) Transfer the soul of the king into the new king by shaking the beads. Final viewing of the corpse and the burial when the process is complete. There are many references to the mourning huts in the kojiki. Reference to the rituals mentioned above in the story of izanagi and izanami. Rectifying power; begining of the emperor system, a clan of emperors wants to create a history in which their clan is the rightful emperor. They make amaterasu the rightful ruler; ama is the uji of the emperor clan. We will talk about: the life of the buddha, early buddhist teachings. The buddha"s titles: the buddha (the awakened one); sakyamuni (sage of the sakyas) In history: christianity first appears in year 70. We are about 600 to 500 years before christianity.