Problems Causing Buddhist Decline in Japan
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Problems causing Buddhist decline in Japan
Monks marriage, not in Japan but for people on outside looking in
Hereditary temples
2 schools of Japanese Buddhism
Soto zen, Rinzai zen
Name a reason Chinese Buddhism is currently in a period of revival
Pop culture, movies, less political persecution
List strategies to get to enlightenment from Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism as you can
8 fold path, 10 perfections, cultivating bodhicitta, mindfulness, skillful means
Summarize the oxherding pictures
Finding the ox, taming the ox, transcending the ox, return to the world and live it out enlightened
Why are women second class citizens in Tibetan Buddhism
Masculinity, cant be ordained fully
List some of the 10 perfections
Patience, insight, morality
Buddhist list describes a person having trouble focusing the mind on studying but is feeling hungry and worried
5 hindrances
desire
ill will
sloth and torpor
restlessness and worry
doubt
List the Three Marks of Existence
Suffering, impermanence, non-self
Name one of the distinctive features of American Buddhism
Repackaged, commercial products, tension between immigrants and white Buddhism,
selective teaching
Distinguish between the Gateless Gate Room and the Pure Land
GGR meditation room in monastery, place you go for 3 years, for cultivation
Pure Land is not on earth, place of happiness, Amida Buddha, easy to be enlightened
Distinguish between the Karmapa and Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama from Gelug
Karmapa from Kagyu
Distinguish between a tulku and a siddha
Siddha has supernatural powers, breaks convention in part of the tantric path
Tulku is recognized holder
Distinguish between convert and Asian Buddhism
Asian, community, sanga, nationalism, whole cosmology and rituals
Convert, minority, individualized, monastic practices with very little ordination
Distinguish between Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism
Theravada is more conservative, Arhat, precept nuns, take what is given to them
Mahayana has bodhisattva, fully ordained and novice monks, vegetarian and they eat
dinner, slightly more rules
Short Essay 2 paragraphs
1) Main features of Tibetan Buddhism: The Dalai Lama, the leader of the Gelug sect, the newest and most powerful. Prayer wheels and prayer flags. Less of a focus on rituals and more of a focus on mindfulness and developing true happiness.
In Tibetan Buddhism, there are a number of features that