Humanities Homework Help
Humanities Homework Help. Week 4: Weekly Discussion Forum
Answer All 6 Questions Below;
Different Buddhist Traditions
Smith identifies Theravadian Buddhism as closest to the original form associated with the Buddha. What then explains the development of Mahayana and/or Vajrayana?
Distinguishing Buddhism From Hinduism
How does Buddhism part ways from Hinduism, most fundamentally?
Moksha And Nirvana
Should moksha be distinguished from nirvana? How?
Intellectualism and Myth
How does Armstrong’s account of Paleolithic myth differ from the “intellectualism” of theorists such as Tylor and Frazer?
The Point of the Legends
The details of Gautama’s life are entirely enshrouded in legend, and legend characteristically heavy with tendentious interpretation. Thus, for instance, the Four Passing Sights are rather spectacular, if somewhat obvious interpolations of doctrine. Similarly one might wonder the significance of the Gautama’s activities between the Great Going Forth and the Awakening. What’s the point, would you say?
Harris and Eastern Religions
Apparently Sam Harris’ critique of religion is meant to be more harshly directed toward Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, than against Hinduism and Buddhism, true? How do you account for the fact that he seems so much more sympathetic to those “Eastern” religions, than to the great ‘Western” monotheisms
Required Texts:
Nine Theories of Religion by Daniel L. Pals(earlier edition is “Eight Theories” also acceptable.)
The World’s Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions by Huston Smith
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
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