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Buddhism Basic Overview of Sangha And Core Doctrines

Refuge I: Buddha

Teaching: Buddhism as world’s first missionary religion

Evolution of the Stūpa India Gandhara China Japan Stūpa: Relics and Symbolic Presence of the Buddha

Stupas in the Himalayas

Refuge II: Sangha

Refuge III: Dharma [Teachings]

1. Duhkha Reality in Samsara inevitably: Pain, Anguish, Suffering, Unsatisfactoriness

2. Trishna “thirst” “craving” “desire” Desire is the cause of suffering

3. Nirodha “cessation” This desiring, and hence suffering, can be ended. How? 4. THE EIGHTFOLD PATH…..

TRUTH 4: There is a Path [to end suffering] Wheel:

8-FOLD PATH Right Speech Right Effort Right Action  Right MindfulnessRight Views Right Livelihood Right Concentration  Right Intention MORALITY  MEDITATION  PRAJÑĀ shiladhyāna“insight” “wisdom”  Nirvāna % of population= 95%……………………………………………………….4.99% %

Samsāra Samsāra “the world” of rebirth and redeath

Human Preta (hungry ghosts) Purgatories Animals, etc. Gods in heaven Daityas (angry spirits)

Hell for Adulterers & Bhutas (hungry ghosts)

Animals

Heaven and its downside: Asuras

Klesha-s “poisons” of embodied existence” Lust, anger, delusion,

Karma [ n ] as natural spiritual law -- of cause and effect – determining destiny in Samsara

Note: There are other causal contingencies that also affect life in samsara e.g. Material world (exterior and interior) Gods and planets

Karma and its limits

= What is Seen with prajñā Second Important Doctrinal Formula THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS of Existence

Mark #1: Suffering Mark #2 Impermanence

Suffering and Impermanence: Facing Embodied Existence

Mark #3: No-Self/ego/soul AN-ATMAN Experiences produce the construction of an imagined “self”; acts on this delusion/existential ignorance with desire, producing attachment and so bondage in samsara. “soul”

Buddhism as “Middle Way” between Extreme Sensual Pleasure LIFE IN THE PALACE and Extreme Ascetic Practices LIFE OF STARVATION

BASIC BUDDHIST FORMULA “Calm the Mind, Discern the Real” Desire [remedy: renunciation/detachment] inflames inflames Ignorance Ignorance [remedy= meditation  prajna]

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