Long answer question During the 3 hours exam, you can not close computer, you can not skip, you can not forward or backward. You must finish the exam. Please answer 4 questions out of the following 8, and write your answers in the space provided below. Please indicate the question number that you are answering. Click "finish" when you complete all answers. 1. Describe the rise of Sarvãstivāda and explain its significance in the Buddhist history. 2. Give details of the Sarvãstivāda texts and outline their contents. 3. Compare the dharma theory of Sarvãstivāda to that of Theravāda and explain its significance. 4. Explain the historical significance of Mahāsānghika and compare its relation to Theravāda. 5. Argue how the Mahāsānghika school might possibly have or might not have influenced the emergence of Mahāyāna. 6. Explain how the Sarvãstivāda teachings have influenced or gave impetus to the emergence of Mahāyāna. 7. Elucidate the doctrine of Pudgalavāda, its controversy, and the points of argument. 8. Explain the rise of the Dārsṭãntika and Sautrāntika schools and their doctrinal relations to other schools. |
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Long answer question During the 3 hours exam, you can not close computer, you can not skip, you can not forward or backward. You must finish the exam. Please answer 4 questions out of the following 8, and write your answers in the space provided below. Please indicate the question number that you are answering. Click "finish" when you complete all answers. 1) Define ‘Theravāda Buddhism’ and point out its unique features. 2) Provide an analysis of the five aggregates and explain how attachment to these aggregates is suffering. 3) Explain the four noble truths with its twelve aspects of wisdom. 4) Present your argument on the following statement: ‘avoiding two extremes, the Buddha teaches the dhamma in the middle’. 5) Expound your understanding on the concept of nibbāna with special reference to three poisons: greed, hatred, and delusion. 6) ‘An arahant is the ideal man in the Theravāda Buddhism’ Explain. 7) Explicate the functioning of kamma in relation to the concept of no-soul (anatta). 8) How does Buddhism explain that ‘one, indeed, is one’s own saviour; no one else’? |
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MC6206 佛学研究的特别论题：藏傳佛教文化研究 藏傳佛教保留着印度顯宗與密宗兩大系統的傳承，並融合藏族本土文化，隨着歷史發展，在梵漢藏的文化交流和相互融攝下，成為世界上別具特色的佛教三大語系之一，從區域的宗教成為國際注目的宗教及文化。 |
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華嚴宗是中國佛教主要宗派之一，其思想被喻為是中國大乘佛學的高峰。 |
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Long answer question During the 3 hours exam, you can not close computer, you can not skip, you can not forward or backward. You must finish the exam. Please answer 4 questions out of the following 8, and write your answers in the space provided below. Please indicate the question number that you are answering. Click "finish" when you complete all answers. 1. Discuss the socio-political conditions at the time of the introduction of Buddhism to Japan in the 6th century C.E. 2. Nara Buddhism was scholastic – comment. 3. Assess critically the outcome of the Taika Reforms in establishing a strong and stable centralized 4. Discuss critically the socio-religious significance of ‘Tariki’ (reliance on an external agent for enlightenment) and ‘Jiriki’ (self-reliance for enlightenment) controversy for the development of Buddhism in the Kamakura period. 5. Discuss the origins of the Mappo Theory (Degeneration of True Dharma) in India and critically assess the impact it had upon the development of Buddhism in Japan. 6. Discuss the salient teachings of the Jodo and Jodo shin schools (Pure Land) form of Buddhism in Japan. 7. Elucidate the basic teachings of Zen Buddhism and its influence on the peoples’ culture. 8. Write short notes on 2 of the following:- |
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Long answer question During the 3 hours exam, you can not close computer, you can not skip, you can not forward or backward. You must finish the exam. Please answer 4 questions out of the following 8, and write your answers in the space provided below. Please indicate the question number that you are answering. Click "finish" when you complete all answers. 1. On what basis Dhamma differs from Abhidhamma? 2. Discuss the development of Abhidhamma through the scholasticism of Bhānakas and other Theras. 3. Do you agree with the suggestion that the Abhidhamma is the theoretical aspect of the Vipassanā practice? 4. Is it correct to distinguish Dhamma from Sabhāva taking them as two different things in the definition of Abhidhamma? 5. Compare and contrast the Rūpa (Matter) analysis of Theravāda with that of Sarvāstivāda. 6. Explain Abhidhamma analysis of perception of external objects as the conceptualization of psycho-physical events. 7. Discuss the reasons that led to separate Vedanā and Saññā from the body of the mentalities (Cetasika) and to make them two distinct aggregates. 8. Explain the theory of dependent origination of Abhidhamma in comparison to that of |
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Long answer question During the 3 hours exam, you can not close computer, you can not skip, you can not forward or backward. You must finish the exam. Please answer 4 questions out of the following 8, and write your answers in the space provided below. Please indicate the question number that you are answering. Click "finish" when you complete all answers. 1. Explain the distinctive nature of Buddhist karma and their effects in details. 2. Examine the eight types of suffering experienced by a sentient being. 3. Discuss the concept of mind training and the importance it played in Buddhism. 4. Evaluate your understanding of the “object of negation” in Lam Rim Chen Mo. 5. How does meditation help in attaining tranquility and insight? 6. Introduce the six Perfections and describe them in details. 7. Describe how one can generate bodhicitta and how to make it arise. 8. What are the three types of person as elucidated in the Teaching of Lam Rim Chen Mo? |
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Long answer question During the 3 hours exam, you can not close computer, you can not skip, you can not forward or backward. You must finish the exam. Please answer 4 questions out of the following 8, and write your answers in the space provided below. Please indicate the question number that you are answering. Click "finish" when you complete all answers. 1. How does the Bodhisattva Ideal differ from the Arahant Ideal? 2. Bodhicitta may be translated as the "awakening mind" or "mind of enlightenment". Discuss. 3. Write your view on the aspiration and qualities of a bodhisattva. 4. Explain the pãramitã as the main practice of a bodhisattva in order to attain Buddhahood. 5. The result of the Mahāyāna path is the ten bhumis or stages of a bodhisattva. Discuss. 6. A bodhisattva gives up absolutely anything for the sake of other beings including his own life and family. Therefore, Does the bodhisattva ideal seem impractical or merely an ambition? Give your own views. 7. “The bodhisattva doctrine is the teaching of ethical philosophy of Mahāyāna Buddhism”. Evaluate this statement. 8. What are the special activities of the bodhisattva as mentioned in the Bodhicaryãvatãra? |
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Long answer question During the 3 hours exam, you can not close computer, you can not skip, you can not forward or backward. You must finish the exam. Please answer 4 questions out of the following 8, and write your answers in the space provided below. Please indicate the question number that you are answering. Click "finish" when you complete all answers. 1) What was the socio-philosophical setting that served as background for the emergence of Buddhism in India? Explain. 2) Elucidate why the theory of Dependent Origination (paṭiccasamuppāda) is regarded as the central teaching of Buddhism. 3) Describe the threefold categorization of the Noble Eightfold Path and the importance of Right View as the first factor of the entire path. 4) Explain the account of women’s ordination as recorded in the early Buddhist literature. 5) Clarify the second Buddhist council that resulted into the dissection of Buddhist community. 6) What contributions did Emperor Asoka make for the propagation of Buddhism in India? 7) Present a brief survey of the Buddhist schools during the reign of Emperor Asoka. 8) Present your views on the origin of early Mahāyāna Buddhism in ancient India. |
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