CHIN 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mahayana, Numinous, Zhang Jue
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In his upbringing, he was very sheltered and never experienced suffering. Fled from his home, went into the forest, and starved himself to find out about the world. Believed that we should support the body (meditation) Came to understand all experiences of the universe. Prince who lived in northern india around the 5th century bce, from warrior caste background (the ruling class) -sorrow can only be stopped by the stopping of craving, The way of the buddha: (the eightfold path) Right view, intention, speech, action, livelihood, right effort, mindfulness, wisdom. Indian emperor who ruled all of india into pakistan, and afghanistan in the 3rd century. Bce, converted his population to buddhism and singlehandedly spread buddhism throughout his land. The perfect patron of buddhism, he sponsored buddhist temples and 84ooo buddhist monuments (stupas), believed to house relics of the buddha. Figure of chakravartin (world-conqueror), a universal monarch/perfect buddhist ruler- sharing the qualities of buddha himself.
