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Final? Study? Flashcards

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Three Bodies of the Buddha

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manifest body, dharma body, reward body

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C: practiced to still the mind, corpse meditations are an example of this
D: calming meditations
S: if you master some of these you lead to DHYANA

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samatha

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C: explains how nirvana and samsara are the SAME, talks badly of Hinayana Buddhists selfishness
D: Mahayana Buddhist sutra written about him

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Vimalakirti

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D: Mind Only; “Absolute Truth is the truth that all truth is contingent”
This is 1/3 sects of Mahayana tradition
There is a MIDDLE WAY between existing and not existing, Nagarjuna!

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Madhyamaka

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C: you should not turn to this for access into the pure land

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own being

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idea only mind only conscious only
a practice/ way of thinking

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Yogacara

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C: mahayana idea, from the 70s, chan buddhism idea
D: everyone is an innate Buddha but can’t realize it themselves, allows you to switch from unconditioned to conditioned
S: you turn to the buddha and teachers to help you realize this

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Buddha nature

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C: What you must master
D: generosity, patience, virtue, energy, concentration, wisdom

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6 perfections

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Han Dynasty is what years

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206BC-220AD

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C: dynasty where public lost faith in the Daoist (beomes neo daoism) ways and started to be less rigid and believe MYSTICAL values, golden age

S: meditation in Buddhism was popularized

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Han Dynasty

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C: after the han dynasty
D: rich dynasty, had hundreds of Buddhist sutras translated by then
S: Dynasty where Buddhism spread
ruled by ____ people

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Tang

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what years if the Tang dynasty

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618-907

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C: Chinese ideal for many years, maintains the order of the cosmos
D: paying respects and honoring elders to restore the natural balance of the universe
S: how buddhism spread to reverse the mindset of

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ancestor worship

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C: placed inside stupas,
D: relic of the Buddha’s physical body, a way to communicate with ancestors
S: these are made to legitimize the buddha, this fuses the idea of a body and a dharma body

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oracle bones

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C: A mahayana idea: an interpretation of what Buddha saw under the bodhi tree
D: everything is empty, there is nothing to be attached to
S: the realization of this is the absolute goal of Buddhist practitioners.

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ultimate truth

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C: Mahayana interpretation
D: the truths that are agreed upon by everyone, the way we see it
S: these are used to teach followers how to realize the ultimate truth

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conventional truth

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C: introduced by the mahayana tradition
D: a representation of an advanced Bodhisattva’s karma

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reward body

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C: this is the way to find harmony, this is the way things are
D: a path, a way, “to speak”
S;

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dao

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C: Axial Age (800-200BC) old tradition
D: major systems of philosophy, two main founders Zhuangzi and Laozi
S: in China bedore Buddhism

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daoism

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C: 5th century he went west to india to wipe out their population by convincing them to not have kids
D: was a buddha, wrote the dao de jing, “old master”
S: One of the two main Daoist influences in china

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Laozi

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21
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When was the Platform Sutra written

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8th century

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22
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What sect is the Platform Sutra from?

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Chan Buddhism

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Who wrote the Platform Sutra

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Huineng’s Disciple wrote his teaching

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C: it creates no distinction between inside and outside or samsara and nirvana
D: embodies the bodhisattva path through ritual; emptiness
S: the truth that there is no truth is transmitted

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Chan/Zen Buddhism

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Bodhisattva definition

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a being motivated by compassion who progresses along the path of enlightenment for the benefit of others

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C: 5th century in the Han period
D: believed there are messages that cannot be delivered using words, had the butterfly dream, “where there is birth there is death” “no-attributes to show what is an attribute”
S: One of the two main philosophers of Daoism

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Zhuangzi

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Confucius’s disciples wrote his words down in the

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analetcs

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C: Everyone can become a Buddha,
D: Sect where you realize Buddha Nature; STOP THINKING; Roshi runs the temple
S: Believes the transmission of the Buddhahood is through the mind; Huineng,

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Chan/Zen Buddhism

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C: Japan In Zen buddhism
D: Written by Shinran and Yuienbo; calling the name and trusting in it above all else (above self power)
S: “letting go” having faith in someone else to bring you

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Tanisho

30
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C: found in Chan Buddhism
D: public case, legal precedent
S: can be used in court, the master has to see if it is exemplary, the abbot does a dharma talk

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koan

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C: important figure of Mahayana buddhism
D: Buddhist follower who received the transmission; smiled at the lotus
S: basis for mind-only consciousness??

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Mahakasyapa

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C: After Buddha dies
D: man who brought Buddhism to china from India
S: Founded Chan and sitting branch of mahayana

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bodhidharma

33
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C: his story was told by a disciple
D: 6th patriarch of Chan buddhism
S: may not be the real patriarch, example of sudden awakening (after hearing diamond sutra)

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huineng

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C: from the yogacara school of mahayana, this solves the binding problem (which is connecting what we perceive to what is real and how we dont mistake it)
D: skandas, 6 main ones, 7th and 8th regard storehouse

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defiled mental consciousness

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C: 1/3 mahayana schools, made buddhism more accessible to peasant farmers
D: amita buddha will guide you to this place after death
S:

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Pure Land

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C: the third period where buddhist teachings have become corrupt
D: the realm of the world we are in that is chaotic and defiled
S: in order to brave this we need to trust in others to bring us to awakening

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mappo

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the other power, this is the most helpful thing to rely on to reach pure land

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tariki

38
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self power, this is an ineffective way to reach pure land, but we are too corrupt as humans to correctly practice Buddhism and reach pure land ourselves

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jiriki

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C: 1133-1212 part of the pure land school (broke off from tendai school)
D: he made the teachings from Tendai more accessible to anyone
S: popularized the nembutsu and only trusting in the Vow to gain awakening

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Honen

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C: 1173-1263 true pure land school, he gets married which is radical
D: disciple of Honen,
S: precedent for monks to get married, his words are in the tanisho

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Shinran

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Tannisho date

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13th century AD

42
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teachings passed from teacher to disciple and tantric practices (hindu inspired ones)

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esoterism

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C: in Japan before buddhism; “the way of the gods”
D: focused on nature and everything having an Kami (which must be worshipped), Nature Worship,
S: must keep the order of the cosmos by worshipping gods (kamis)

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shinto

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C: made buddhism more accessible to everyday people
D: nichiren, soto zen, nenbutsu became newest schools allows one to practice individually without a teacher
S:

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Kamakura one practice movements

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C: a man and name of a sect coming from Kamakura one practice mvmt
D: reciting the name of the lotus sutra

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nichiren

46
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D: just sitting bc you are already inherently awakened

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soto zen

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C: 1/3 of Zen Buddhism
D: reciting the Vow and amitda buddha will guide you to Pure Land
S:

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nembutsu/ Pure Land

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What years was Confucius alive

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500 BC

49
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C: rooted in India, higher form of meditation
D: insight meditations, focuses on ones sensations
S: leads to LIBERATION

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vipasyana

50
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what are the three realms in chinese philosophy?

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heaven, earth, and humankind

51
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C: has several disciples who lives with them
D: teacher in tibetan buddhism, either reincarnate or earned the title
S: leader of the monastery, and can be political leader

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lama/ guru

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c: reincarnation of succeding lamas
d: “ocean of wisdom”; Gelug tradition
s:

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dalai lama

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C: second to the dalai lama
d: the reincarnate of the amithaba “buddha of boundless light”
s: helps choose the next reincarnate

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panchen lama

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C: related to the lotus sutra
D: signals that everyone has a buddhahood, chanted effortlessly in tibetan meditation
S: brings compassion and wisdom

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six syllable mantra

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C: begins in Lhasa, writing system then first monastery in 779, 9th century translation project

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early spread of Buddhism

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C: 9th -10th century
D: empire collapse monasteries decline
S: introduce Vajrayana (object focused) Buddhism

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period of fragmentation

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C: 11th century - present
D: 4 schools developed, Gelug is most popular

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later spread of buddhism

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C: trying to apply science to buddhist ideas
D: not a religion, a rational way of thinking, mainly just meditation, D. T. Suzuki
S: institutional and not ritual

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buddhist modernism

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D: the idea that the mind and our senses are filtered by the body
S: drugs are seen as a way to take off the filter and

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filter theory

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D: the idea that there is a shared set of universal truths between all religions
S: “universal truth” is common to this and Buddhism

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perennialism

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