Buddhism

5 notes tagged Buddhism.

• History

  Buddhism and Jainism: Teachings and Sects

  The socio-religious ferment behind the Buddha and Mahavira, the sangha's own rules, the Tipitaka, why Mahayana and Theravada aren't the same split as Hinayana, and the Chola temple economy terms this chapter's own PYQ tests.

• History

  The Spread of Buddhism: Councils and Schisms

  How the councils at Rajagriha, Vaishali and Pataliputra produced the key schisms, how Ashoka's and Kanishka's patronage, trade and monasteries carried Buddhism to Sri Lanka, Central Asia and China, and what a stupa's toranas and images actually show.

• History

  Buddhism and Jainism: Anatta versus Jiva

  Four Noble Truths versus the Three Jewels, anatta versus the eternal jiva, and why the Bodhisattva is a distinctly Mahayana idea with no Jain equivalent.

• Art & Culture

  Cave Architecture and Buddhist Art in India

  Chaitya halls and viharas, Ajanta and Ellora across their artistic phases, Mahabalipuram's Pallava rathas, Sanchi and Kanaganahalli, and the aniconic-to-iconic shift UPSC tests.

• Art & Culture

  Buddhism and Jainism: Beliefs and Sects

  Covers the Four Noble Truths, Buddhist councils and sects, the Bodhisattva ideal, Jain vows and Tirthankaras, and the Digambara-Svetambara canon split.