Sources of Wisdom and Authority: The Buddha
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- Created on: 05-06-18 13:24
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- The Buddha
- Significance of the life of the Buddha for Theravada Buddhists (role model and authority as 'enlightened one')
- Buddha was a man
- Attainable goals and relatable
- Achieved knowledge that leads to liberation by himself
- Dharma realised through direct experience and possible for others
- Miraculous birth
- Unique man
- Rare because he taught the Dharma
- Important and of the highest authority
- Rejected luxury (prince)
- Importance of spiritual gains
- The Four signs
- Led to the great renunciation
- Buddha's asceticism
- Middle way
- Enlightenment
- Ability for others and authoritative as it was direct experience
- Teachings and aims
- To be ultimate role model for all and liberate all living things
- Buddha is now dead and beyond communication
- Impermanence and self reliance
- Left Buddhism which is everything we need to know about his teachings
- Importance of unchanged tradition
- Buddha was a man
- Mahayana view that the life and teaching of Buddha was skilful means (parable of the burning house)
- Concept of Yana- teaching of the raft
- Use it cross to shore beyond birth and death but then let it go
- Skilful means
- Practical nature of Buddha's teaching
- Adapting to pupils to communicate the Dharma
- Adapting language, dress etc.
- Some teachings were revealed later than the Pali Canon
- Revealed in accordance with community's ability o understand
- Example of Sigala
- Modified his worship
- Parable of the burning house
- House burning with fires of old age, sickness and death
- Father getting children to leave the house= Buddha's teaching
- Chariot= Nirvana
- Mahayana Buddhists attempt to become Bodhisattvas
- Buddha is available in spiritual form
- Concept of Yana- teaching of the raft
- Significance of the life of the Buddha for Theravada Buddhists (role model and authority as 'enlightened one')
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