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Buddhist Terms from Lecture
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- 1T'ien-Tai SchoolChinese "Lotus School" with 5 periods and 8 teachings, and 3 levels of truth.
- 2Hua-Yen SchoolHua-Yen Sutra. We see all things according to interdependence and interrelatedness.
- 3Pure Land School"Easy path", through devotion you can be brought into the Pure Land
- 4Ch'an School (Zen)Meditation -> things for what they really are -> enjoying life
- 5KoanZen puzzle used to prevent logic.
- 6MaitreyaBodhisattva preserved to be the future Buddha.
- 7BudaiCh'an monk, pictured as obese and bald, but happy and charitable. Also called the laughing Buddha.
- 8WonhyoHarmonized the different Buddhist scools
- 9Nichiren SchoolArgued other Buddhist schools were heretical. All you had to do was recite the name of the text to find your Buddha Nature.
- 10True Pure LandTakes Amida's vows seriously, focuses on salvation and being at the mercy of the Buddha.
- 11MantrasWords or formulas used to evoke deities t achieve certain goals.
- 12MandalasCircular diagrams of deities and Buddhist concepts in order to help visualise realms and inner awakening.
- 13MudrasBody movements or gestures which have symbolic meaning.
- 14LamaSuperior one.
- 15TulkusA person or lineage who is reborn.
- 16The Red Hat SchoolHas the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
- 17Yellow Hat SchoolDalai Lama
- 18D T SuzukiBrought Buddhism to the West
- 19DhammakayaFastest growing reform group, popular amongst the affluent, argues that earning money is ok.
- 20Santi AsokeArgues for austere practices and an end to the superstitious.
- 21Phra BoonsongFocuses on the environment, on helping fish and cleaning rivers.
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