Asian Unit Study Guide

Question 0

Who was the first Buddha?

Answer 0

Siddhartha Guatama

Question 1

Describe three elements of Zen Buddhism

Answer 1

Physical exercise
Meditation
Discipline

Question 2

What is nirvana

Answer 2

Buddhist enlightenment

Question 3

What is dharma

Answer 3

Dapharma Buddhist teachings

Question 4

What is Karma?

Answer 4

What comes around goes around

Question 5

Who is the 28 Buddha?

Answer 5

Gotama Buddha

Question 6

Explain 3 legends regarding the 28 Buddha

Answer 6

Went into a cave, stared at wall for 9 years, cut off eye lids, and created green tea to stay awake while staring at the wall. And created Shaolin monastery

Question 7

Name some zen activities

Answer 7

Meditation, yoga, gardening

Question 8

What is zen aesthetic?

Answer 8

It is like simplicity, lots of discipline, and be open to growth.

Question 9

How are the overflowing tea cups and enso good metaphors for zen?

Answer 9

Tea cup relates to humans in that we are overwhelmed with distractions and thoughts. Enso is the circle so it shows your concentration level.

Question 10

Why were the Samurai drawn to Zen Buddhism?

Answer 10

Because it is a discipline way of thinking and it fits the samurai way.

Question 11

Hagakure and bushido shoshinshu are both what types of books?

Answer 11

They are samurai manuals

Question 12

What is Bushido?

Answer 12

Bushido is the way of the warrior

Question 13

What is seppuku/harakirri?

Answer 13

The way of killing yourself with a sword into the stomach and it restores your honor.

Question 14

Haiku Symbolism is?

Answer 14

The number one trait of haiku is symbolism. Symbolism is an allegory.

Question 15

Haiku kigo is?

Answer 15

Kigo is the season word.

Question 16

Haiku kireji is?

Answer 16

It is the pause/break/cut off

Question 17

Haiku Zen world-life is? (Life is transitory)

Answer 17

This life is a transition to the next

Question 18

Haiku wabi sabi is?

Answer 18

When you take old things and make them simple.

Question 19

Who is the famous writer of Haiku? What does his name mean?

Answer 19

Matsho Basho. His name means banana tree.

Question 20

How can Matsho’s Haiku be interpreted?

Answer 20

The samurai death.

We are the drop and we will soon be dead.

Question 21

How do the two different river stories contribute to the films commentary or environmental degradation?

Answer 21

Whenever Sen cleans a river spirit and Haku’s river got built over with apartments so he couldn’t remember his name.

Question 22

What do no-face and and Chihiro’s parents suggest about consumption and greed? How does Chihiro differ from them?

Answer 22

That greed and consumption never benefits you in the end. Chihiro didn’t consume the food and didn’t turn into a pig while her parents did eat food and turn into pigs.

Question 23

What does Chihiro discover about life and about herself? How is her story mirrored by the story of Yubaba’s baby?

Answer 23

She becomes less afraid of life and that she can control it and that she must work hard for things that she wants. You ababa baby was scared to leave the room because she didn’t want the germs and then he came outside and saw what was right and wrong.

Question 24

Rashomon & in a grove

Answer 24

Rashomon- about a guy who values honor then meets a woman stealing hair and steals her robe
In a grove- a samurai and woman were dead in a bamboo grove, there was a bandit (tajumaru)

Question 25

Study kanji characters. (Two boxes on top of eachother and to the right of that is the tree things. That means the origin.

Answer 25

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Question 26

Love suicides

Answer 26

A man leaves a woman and child are left, and turn emotionally dead

Question 27

Shinto

Answer 27

Religion with belief of spirits (kami) in everything and purification

Question 28

“Saving face”

Answer 28

Protecting your family name

Question 29

Torii

Answer 29

Shinto gate, enter in and go in spirit world

Question 30

Filial piety

Answer 30

Confucius respect for parents and ancestors

Question 31

“Fall down seven times, get up eight”

Answer 31

Never give up, and always continue on

Question 32

“The nail that sticks up is hammered down”

Answer 32

Unlike western culture, you want to fit in and teamwork is important

Question 33

How does “in the grove” exemplify non-dualism?

Answer 33

There is no definite answer