Buddhist Dissent
- Buddhist Dissent
Description
The key insight of the Upanishads is the identification of atman with Brahman. Buddhists deny both atman and Brahman.
Outline
IX. The Voice of Dissent: The Brahminical Challenge
A. Anatman (No-Self)
1. The Five Aggregates of life changing
2. Impermanence of everything
B. Pratitiya Samutpada (interdependent Arising)
(textbook: paticca-samuppada - “conditioned Genesis”)
Pratitiya Samutpada - The twelve causal links of conditioned and conditioning interdependence which forms the matrix of the phenomenal world (samsara).
It is the doctrine of interdependent arising.
When this is, that is
this arising, that arises
When this is not, that is not
this ceases, that ceases
Twelve Causal links: Buddhist Wheel of Life
ignorance
karmic predispositionsrr
consciousness
name and form
five senses and mind
contact
feeling and response
craving / desire
grasping for an object
action toward life
re-birth
old age and death
C. Mahasanghikas
1. Claim that Buddha is divine
2. Siddhartha Gautma was not the only Buddha
3. Mahayana vs Teravada Buddhism
X. The Emergence of Popular Bhakti Movements in India
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