Ideas Be knowledgeable about each of these items know their context terminology and why they re important in the religion s mentioned 1 Buddhist Eightfold Path The 8 principles are not sequential they must work together 8 Principles o Right understanding Four Noble Truths o Right thought free of sensuous desire ill will and cruelty o Right speech o Right conduct o Right livelihood o Right effort o Right mindfulness o Right meditation 2 Buddhist 5 Aggregates Buddhism teaches that the person is composed of five bundles complexes called skandhas o AKA Five Aggregates The first skandha produces the physical body The remaining four sensation perception mental formations and consciousness together produce all od the individuals mental processes 3 Buddhist Five Precepts No killing No stealing No sexual misconduct No lying No intoxicants 4 Buddhist Four Noble Truths Suffering Thirst Craving Cessation of Suffering The Path 5 Buddhist four sights Suffering Thirst Craving Cessation of Suffering The Path Suffering Impermanence 6 Buddhist Three Signs of Being Characteristics of Existence 7 Buddhist Triple Gem No Self Buddha Dharma Sangha 8 Chinese notions of universal flow and organic unfolding The flood like vital force spirit or energy that appears simultaneously to give substance to virtue and to be nourished by it 9 Confucian Rectification of Names and Five Relationships Names o To know and use the proper designations of things in the web of relationships that creates meaning o Then behaving accordingly to ensure social harmony Five Relationships o Ruler subject o Parent child o Husband wife o Elder brother youngest brother o Friend friend 10 Hindu caste system Social and occupational divisions 4 divisions o Brahmins priests and teachers o Kshatriyas rulers and warriors o Vaishyas merchants o Shudras servants 11 How many gurus in Sikh history and how many were human 11 gurus 10 of them were human 12 Initial Chinese attitudes towards Buddhist monasticism There is a continuing order of Mahayana nuns following a disciple vinaya of the Dharmagupta sect in China and Taiwan and some of their bhikshunis may now be found in many countries There is no specific mention of monasticism in relation to Buddhism and China within the book 13 Jain attitudes towards idols Idol murti veneration became an established feature Idol veneration continues to be central religious activity for most Jainas 14 Jain Cosmology Jainas believe that the entire cosmos loka is made up of six eternal substances called drayva and that knowledge of these drayva is an important step towards self perception 15 Main difference between rebirth and reincarnation Reincarnation belief in the transmigration of the soul of a person after death to another body Rebirth belief in the continuity of karmic tendencies from one life to another 16 Scientology s view of reincarnation A thetan soul is thought to be billions of years old The thetan is reincarnated passing from one body to another at death 17 The basis of the shramana movement Gave rise to Buddhism Shramana s had a need for salvation 18 The connections between Shinto and Japanese nationalism Shintoism is a religion that is followed mainly in Japan It is tightly associated with the traditional Japanese lifestyle that in turn runs alongside nature Sacral things are embodied in the natural objects like stones trees ponds and plants Japanese people are very respectful of the ancestral traditions and keep up the tradition of Shintoism 19 The differences between religious and philosophical Daoism Religious o Widely associated with colorful rituals o Belief in deities ghosts and spirits o Pursuit of immortality or transcendence Philosophical o Concerned with maters such as nature of virtue cultivation of the heart mind and attainment of good governance 20 The different understandings of karma in Hinduism Buddhism and Jainism o System of rewards and punishments attached to various actions o This system of cause and effect may require several lifetimes to work Hinduism out Buddhism o The energy of the individual s past thoughts and actions good or bad o Determines rebirth within the wheel of samsara or cycle of rebirth that ends only when parinirvana is achieved o All of us must make our own karma Jainism o Every activity of the mind as well as the body causes vibrations that create ever more particles of sticky binding karma o Two types of karma Auspicious Good karma punya Inauspicious Bad karma papp o All forms of karma must be purged 21 The general history of ISKCON Hare Krishnas and the argument if they are a new religious movement or not Founded by a 70 year old holy Hindu man named A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada o He chanted a mantra with the words Hare Krishna and Rama o He established the ISKCON and the Hare Krishna movement Argument o The media deemed ISKCON a cult 22 The general history of the label cult Originally a neutral term used as a synonym for worship or even religion 23 The general history of the label Hinduism Derived from Sind the name of the region now Pakistan of the river Sindhu Indus To British colonizers in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Hinduism meant the religion of those Indians the majority of the population who were not Muslims 24 The notion of the caste duty in Hinduism especially in the Bhagavad Gita Underlying this hierarchical system is the idea that people are born with different spiritual propensities According to the Law of Manu it is better to fulfill one s own dharma obligations imperfectly than to fulfill another person s dharma well the Bhagavad Gita makes the same point 25 The proportion of women in the early Jain community There were more nuns women than monks men 26 The story of King Ashoka s conversion to Buddhism Buddhist accounts claim that it was Ashoka s reflection on the horrible carnage of his bloody war with the kingdom of Kalinga on the eastern coast that led him to convert to Buddhism and begin promoting the ethic of non violence 27 The story of Nanak Dev s mystical experience Early one morning he disappeared without a trace Family members gave him up for dead but three days later following a profound mystical experience he stepped out of the water and proclaimed There is no Hindu there is no Muslim 28 The view of women in Buddhism Never defined women as the property of men Women were considered a distraction Women were no less capable than men of becoming Arhats saints and that the way to nirvana was the same regardless of
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