Religion 150

Set of beliefs concerning the nature and purpose of the universe

Focused on textbook studies, launched religious study

Focused on "the holy" religion is experiences of an outside entity

Religion is the Opiate

Religion affects social actions

Religion is deeply individualized

One's primary motivation

A religion is a unified system of Beliefs and practices

• In India means good fortune
• means Nazis everywhere else

Belief that God does not exist

Does not belief nor disbelief in religion

Belief in many deities

Belief in opposing powers

Finding the divine in nature

Belief in one God

the practice of experiencing the divine

renunciants, giving up on the world seeking spiritual advancement

The normal follower

Religious traditions of a particular people that is intrinsically linked to the landscape, language, and culture of the people

Korean Diplomats

Japan Buddhism comes from China and Korea

Prince Shotoku pronounces Buddhism as official language

Prince Shotoku pronounces Buddhism as official language

• Pureland Zen
• Nichiren Groups

leadino to the redtoration of the meiji

Empress of Japan who officially recognizes Buddhism and becomes Buddhist nun

• Nephew of Suiko
• Creates centralized government allowing Buddhism to spread rapidly
• Built various temples and made Buddhism official religion

Limits growth of Buddhism

• Tendai
• Shingon
• Pureland
• Zen 
• Nichiren

• founded by saicho and is largest group
• training for Buddhists

• Founded by kukai
• focus on ritual fire

devotional groups

Focuses on meditation

• Physical place that has perfect conditions for enlightenment
• today it is metaphor for living compassionately in this world
• Worship Bodhisattvas and Buddhas

Chanting name of Buddha

Most popular form of Buddhism in the West

Koan and Satori

• California Gold Rush
• World's Parliament of Religions
• Post WWII

• Destroy Ego
• non attachment to material world
• freedom from desires

• Conflict between Buddhist and Catholic
• Brought Buddhism into American Spotlight

Arrives with Immigrants from Japan and China

Human nature is good and gov should be small

Human nature is good and gov should provide moral leadership

Man is bad and gov should have power

• balance and harmony
• goal is to restore and maintain balance of natural world

worship and offerings to spirits

Communicating with ancestors

god on high

heaven

• Lao Tzu
• mother carried him in the womb for 60 years

written by lao tzu

• Primordial energy 
• source of all
• union with dao can bring spiritual purity

natural forces that represent reality

everything that is feminine cold hard

masculine

energy life force from dao

dao de jing