Unit 1
A. From recommended books / on reserve at the library:
- "Remembering
Past Lives" (EOB 1.7: 24-36)
- "Viewing
the Cosmos" & "Predictions of Maitreya"
(EOB 1.8 *&* 13: 36-42, 52-55 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "Tales
of Conversion" (EOB 2.1: 57-73)
- "Praise to Buddha's Good Qualities" (BIP,chapter 1: 39-49)
- "Gotami's Story" (BIP,chapter 8: *on SacCT*)
- "Provisions for the Buddha's Absence" (LCU,
5-11, 23-37)
- "Upagupta's Karmic Past" (LCU, 5-11,
42-53)
- "...Patriarchs & the Forest Monk... " (LCU, 5-11, 57-60,
66-74)
- "Buddha Shakyamuni as Saint" (BSI,
chapter 2: 44-61)
- "Saints of the Theragatha & Therigatha" (BSI,chapter 3: *on SacCT*)
- "Orthodox Saints...: Mahakashyapa, Upagupta & Shariputra" (BSI,chapter 4: 105-18 *OR* 118-31 *OR* 105, 118-19, 131-40)
- "Ascetic Traditions..." (BSI,chapter 9:
293-302, 308-10, 312-14)
B. On-line (@ www.accesstoinsight.org):
C. From "Story of India" (@ Library Media Center)
CAUTION: make sure to describe scenes in terms of the narrator's activites and images shown, not just narration.
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Unit 2
A. From recommended books / on reserve at the library:
- "Rites of Passage"..."the Sangha"..."The
Six Relationships" (EOB 2.2-3 & 3.5.2-3:
74-85, 123-26 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "Sangha Situations"..."Sharing Merit"..."Theravadin...Orthodoxy" (EOB 2.4-5,
3.5.4 & 3.6.1: 85-96,
126-28, 139-40 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "...Suffering, Impermanence & No-Self" & "...on
Time" (EOB 3.1-2 & 3.6.2:
97-108,141-42 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "The Arising...[&]
Cessation of Suffering" (EOB 3.3-4:
108-20)
- "Mahasamghikas"..."Perfection of Wisdom" & "...on
Nirvana" (EOB 3.6.3, 4.2-4.3.1:
143, 145-146, 151-62 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "...Types of Consciousness"..."Sudhana's
Vision of the Cosmos" (EOB 4.3.2-6: 145-46, 163-73 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "Gotami's Story" (BIP, chapter 8: *on SacCT*)
- "The Tathagatagarbha Sutra" (BIP,
chapter 7: 94-106)
- "Buddha's Good Qualities" & "Bathing the Buddha" & "The Whole Universe
as a Sutra" (BIP, chapter 1: 39-49 & chapter 3: 59-68 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "Lay Life,
Ordination & Arhatship" (LCU, 75-83, 87-92)
- "Upagupta and Mara" (LCU,
93, 104-17: *on SacCT*)
- "Upagupta and Ashoka" (LCU,
143-46, 154-58, 164-67)
- "Saints
Criticized & Condemned" (BSI, chapter 5: 151-62 OR 162-73)
- "The Solitary Saint" (BSI,
chapter 7: 213-18, 232-40)
- "Bodhisattva Saints of the
Forest in Mahayana Sutras" (BSI, chapter 8: 251-60, 270-74 *OR* 251, 260-69, 275-80)
- "Ascetic Traditions of Buddhist
Saints" (BSI, chapter 9: 293-307 *OR* 293-97, 308-18)
- "...Buddhist Doctrines of Absence & Presence" (BSI,
chapter 11, 358-69 *OR* 368-80 *OR* 358-59,
367-69, 381-86)
- "...Saints & the Process
of Monasticization" (BSI,chapter 12:
397-410)
B. Online:
C. From "Story of India" (@ Library Media Center)
CAUTION: make sure to describe scenes in terms of the narrator's activites and images shown, not just narration.
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Unit 3
A. From recommended books / on reserve at the library:
- excerpts from Lotus & Vimalakirti
Nirdesha Sutras (EOB 4.1: 146-50; 5.1-2:
189-92, 195; 4.4.4: 181-86 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "Celestial Buddhas"..."Meditational Endeavors"..."Miao-Shan" (EOB 5.4.1-2: 198-202; 8.6 & 8.7.2-3:
301-6, 308-10 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "The First Monk...& the Emperor"..."Deathbead Admonitions" (EOB 8.1-3, 290-96; 9.1-3:
315-23 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "Koans"..."Nichiren on Menstruation"..."Monks & Marriage" (EOB 9.5.1, 9.6-7: 326-29, 332-40 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "Cults of Arhants" (BSI,
chapter 6: 179-90 *OR* 187-98 *OR* 179,
187-90, 197-204)
- "Buddhist Saints & the
Stupa" (BSI, chapter 10: 324-37 OR 333-43, 348-52)
- "...Saints & ...Monasticization" (BSI, chapter 12: 396, 410-21)
- "Master-Disciple Relations"
(LCU, 118-33 *OR* 133-44)
- "Reading Other's Minds" u(BIP, chapter 4: *on SacCT*)
- "Bathing the Buddha" & "Legend of The Iron Stupa " (BIP, chapter 3: 59-68 & chapter 19:
232-35 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "The Book of Resolving
Doubts" (BIP, chapter 15: 187-201)
- "Original Enlightenment thought in the Nichiren Tradition" (BIP,
chapter 13: 166)
B. Online:
C. Films @ the Library Media Center
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Unit 4
A. From recommended books / on reserve at the library:
- "Buddha's Visit to Shri Lanka"..."Controversy" (EOB 6.1: 222-33 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "King Parakramabahu"..."Festival of Relics" (EOB 6.3-4:
233-44 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "Arrival of the Shri Lankan
Nuns"..."Monks & Politics" (EOB 8.7.1: 307-8; 6.6-8:
246-55 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "Tantric Buddhism, or Vajrayana" & "Kukai's Visualization" (EOB 5.5.1-3, 5-6 & 9.5.2:
206-12, 216-20, 330-31 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "Subduing Demons"..."Efforts
of Atisha"..."Casting
Spells (EOB 7.1-3, 7.4.2: 256-64,
269-71 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "Pilgrimage"..."Milarepa's
Quest" (EOB 7.5-6:
*on SacCT* <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "Myth...and Ritual Developments" (LCU,
209-13, 226-35)
- "Upagupta and the Arhat
Cults" (LCU, 236-40, 247-52, 274-76)
- "Upagupta as Protector" (LCU, 253-61,
268-72)
- "Bimba's Lament" (BIP,
chapter 32, 419-30)
- "Advice to the Layman" (BIP,
chapter 25: 296-310)
- "Way to Meditation" & "A Modern Sermon on Merit-Making" (BIP,
chapter 12: 157-65 & chapter 24: 293-95 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
- "On Becoming a Buddhist
Wizard" (BIP, chapter 22: 259-70)
- "Two Tantric Meditations" (BIP,
20: 236-45)
- "A Lamp for the Path..." (BIP,
chapter 17: 208-19)
- "...the Original Buddha" & "Journey
to Sumatra" (BIP, chapter 5: 82-87 & chapter 31:
409-18)
- "The Buddhist Saints & the Two Tiered
Model of Buddhism" (BSI, chapter 1: 15-22, 31-35 OR 15,
23-35)
- "Buddhist Saints & the Stupa" (BSI,
chapter 10: 337-49)
- "Conclusion:...a Threefold Model of Buddhism" (BSI,
433-47)
B. Online:
C. Films @ the Library Media Center
CAUTION: make sure to describe scenes in terms of the narrator's activites and images shown, not just narration.
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