RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Dukha People, Upanishads, Vedas
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4 sides (disease, old age, death, renunciant) Has a moment of awakening and tells the 4 noble truths. Goes back to friends and gives the 1st sermon, the teaching of the. Buddhism like jainism starts with 1 man. Started at a moment of revolution and renunciation. Lectures on karma, time theory and upanishads are all referential to hinduism. When the buddha is born he is already awakened and transcendent. Zen/chen buddhism: a tradition of buddhism in china. Buddhism is non-exclusive, you can be buddhist & another religions. You can believe in no gods, one god or many gods and you would still be a good hindu. thus when studying hinduism you need to study it in a different manner in comparison to other religions. Hinduism does not have a point of conception. It is the culture of india and the flux. After the split into 3 (jains, buddhists and hindus) hinduism didn"t reject the vedas.
