ASIAN 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Theravada, Taoism, Mahayana
ASIAN 101 – BUDDH ISM
Buddhism (founded 500 BCE)
• Born in India
• Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
o Born in what is now Nepal around 500 BCE
o Member of the Kshatriya caste (ruler/warrior class)
o Hindu
o Leaves palace to see the outside world to find all of the suffering that
exists
o Becomes a renouncer and wants to find a way out of samsara
o Meditates under Bodhi Tree, gets really close to enlightenment, but
then the Demon Mara (representing attachments of the world) comes.
He does nothing
• Buddha’s Realizations: The Three Marks of Existence
o 1. Impermanence: change is the only definite future of the world,
nothing lasts
o 2. Suffering: all life is suffering, there is no way to escape this while
still in cycle of birth and death
o 3. Non-self: the concept that there is no concrete bounded soul, rather
the soul is a flame
▪ Flame represents the attachment to the material world
▪ When the flame burns out then you have escaped the cycle
(Nirvana)
• Buddha’s Teachings
o The Four Noble Things
▪ 1. All existence is suffering
▪ 2. Suffering is caused by desire
▪ 3. It is possible to stop suffering
▪ 4. The Eightfold Path leads to this possibility
• Between sensual indulgence and extreme asceticism (is
this median path)
o (“Right” meaning correct)
o 1. Right View
o 2. Right Intention
o 3. Right Speech
o 4. Right Action
o 5. Right Livelihood
o 6. Right Effort
o 7. Right Mindfulness
o 8. Right Concentration
o Three Jewels of Buddhism
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Document Summary
He does nothing: buddha"s realizations: the three marks of existence, 1. Impermanence: change is the only definite future of the world, nothing lasts: 2. Suffering: all life is suffering, there is no way to escape this while still in cycle of birth and death: 3. It is possible to stop suffering: 4. The eightfold path leads to this possibility: between sensual indulgence and extreme asceticism (is this median path, ( right meaning correct, 1. A sia n 1 01 b ud d h ism. I take refuge in the buddha: buddha is there to show you the way, the possibilities he represents. I take refuge in the dharma: teachings of the buddha. A sia n 1 01 b ud d h ism: bodhisattvas (someone who has nearly reached. Nirvana, but out of incredible kindness decided to help others reach it instead: manjushri: bodhisattva of wisdom, samantabhadra: bodhisattva of enlightening.
