Lecture Notes

Week 1

Lecture 2: Class foci, Aristotelian vs. Four-step logic, Geography of Asian Religions

Lecture 3: Indus Valley Civilization, Vedic Religion, Rig Vega

Week 2

Lecture 1: Rig Veda (continued); Upanishads; Krishna and the Dance of the Gopis

Lecture 2: Buddhism: Life of the Historical Buddha Sakyamuni

Lecture 3: Buddhism: Early Teachings: Nikaya Buddhism

Week 3

Lecture 1: Mahayana Buddhism: Nagarjuna and the Two-Fold Truth

Lecture 2: The Vimalakirti Sutra: The Goddess and Sariputra

Week 4

Lecture 1: Chinese Philosophical Schools

Lecture 2: Early Chinese Civilization and Confucius' World of Ideas

Lecture 3: Fingarette, Confucius - The Secular as Sacred

Week 5

Lecture 1: Confucius' Orchestral Vision

Lectures 2-3: Daoism: Laozi and Zhuangzi

Week 6

Lectures 1-2: Daoism: Zhuangzi

Lecture 3: Zen Buddhism: Bodhidharma

Week 7

Lecture 1: Japanese Mythology

Lecture 2: Korean Buddhism

Lecture 3: Japan: Kamakura Buddhism I: Dogen

Week 8

Lecture 1: Japan: Kamakura Buddhism I: Dogen (cont.)

Lectures 2-3: Japan: Kamakura Buddhism II: Shinran

Week 9

Lecture 1: Thich Nhat Hanh: Being Peace