Fall 2012, Class 02

1. LTWL 135
THE BUDDHIST IMAGINARY
jhj jhj jhj jhj jhj jhj
syllabus available at:
http://profcohen.net/ltwl135

6. karma
saṃsāra
rebirth

8. Śakra = Kauśika = Indra
King of the Heaven of the Thirty Three Gods
(in)dividual

9. bhāvacakra = wheel of existence

10. Māra

11. the three poisons:
desire
hatred
ignorance

12. the human world
(manuṣya-loka)

13. the animal realm
(tiryagyoni-loka)

14. the realm of the gods
(deva-loka)

15. the realm of the anti-gods
(āsura-loka)

16. the realm of hungry ghosts
(preta-loka)

17. the hells
(naraka)

18. the six gatis (destinies)

24. Structure of Time:
1) a kalpa of dissolution,
during which the world we know it is progressively destroyed
2) a kalpa of nothingness,
during which universe is entirely non-manifest
3) a kalpa of creation,
in which the universe gradually reappears and is repopulated
4) a kalpa of the duration of created world,
during which the universe remains manifest, and is populated
with human life
kalpa
= fill 7.4 cubic km with mustard seeds
= 120.0554 x 1018 mustard seeds; remove 1 seed per 100 years
mahākalpa
= 80 kalpas = 9.6 x 1023 years
asaṃkhya kalpa
= 64 mahākalpa = 6.144 x 1025 years

25. Pāli Sanskrit
sutta sūtra
kamma karma
dhamma dharma
bodhisatta bodhisattva
Indra = Śakra = Kauśika = King of the Heaven of the Thirty Three
Thus have I heard = Evaṃ mayā śrutam
4 Castes (varṇas)
priest = brahmin
warrior = kṣatriya
commoner = vaiśya
servant = śūdra
tathāgata = literally, “thus come” or “thus gone”
tathā + gata tathā + āgata
collective karma