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Dec 02, 2024
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ASIAN 3341 - [Mahayana Buddhism] (crosslisted) RELST 3341 (GHB) (ALC-AS, CA-AS) (EC-SAP) Spring. Not offered: 2023-2024. Next offered: 2024-2025. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
D. Boucher.
This course will explore the origins and early developments of a movement in Indian Buddhism known as the Great Vehicle. We will intensively examine a small slice of this movement’s voluminous literature so as to better understand its call for a new spiritual orientation within Buddhism. Topics of discussion will include the career of the bodhisattva, the lay/monk distinction, attitudes of Mahayanists toward women and other Buddhists, and the development of Buddhist utopias and transcendent buddhas. (RL)
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