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EOB = The Experience of Buddhism

BIP = Buddhism in Practice

LCU = Legend & Cult of Upagupta

BSI = Buddhist Saints in India

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Source Analyses --> Additional Sources

At the end of each unit for which you are NOT writing an Observation Report, you must submit an analysis of an additional source listed for that unit, described to address the concerns of a person mentioned in a scenario from one of the application exercises for that unit. Most of these sources are available (A) in the recommended books available at the bookstore and at the library's reserve collection, a few of which are posted on SacCT, or (B) directly on-line from various web sites; and each unit contains one or two films available (C) at the library media center. NOTE: half a dozen student Source Analyses will be assigned as readings for the final TRA and application exercise.

One word of CAUTION: the shortest sources are often more difficult to summarize.

Unit 1

A. From recommended books / on reserve at the library:

  1. "Remembering Past Lives" (EOB 1.7: 24-36)
  2. "Viewing the Cosmos" & "Predictions of Maitreya"
        (EOB 1.8 *&* 13: 36-42, 52-55 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
  3. "Tales of Conversion" (EOB 2.1: 57-73)

  4. "Praise to Buddha's Good Qualities" (BIP,chapter 1: 39-49)
  5. "Gotami's Story" (BIP,chapter 8: *on SacCT*)

  6. "Provisions for the Buddha's Absence" (LCU, 5-11, 23-37)
  7. "Upagupta's Karmic Past" (LCU, 5-11, 42-53)
  8. "...Patriarchs & the Forest Monk... " (LCU, 5-11, 57-60, 66-74)

  9. "Buddha Shakyamuni as Saint" (BSI, chapter 2: 44-61)
  10. "Saints of the Theragatha & Therigatha" (BSI,chapter 3: *on SacCT*)
  11. "Orthodox Saints...: Mahakashyapa, Upagupta & Shariputra" (BSI,chapter 4: 105-18 *OR* 118-31 *OR* 105, 118-19, 131-40)
  12. "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.

Unit 2

A. From recommended books / on reserve at the library:

  1. "Rites of Passage"..."the Sangha"..."The Six Relationships"    (EOB 2.2-3 & 3.5.2-3: 74-85, 123-26 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
  2. "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)
  3. "...Suffering, Impermanence & No-Self" & "...on Time" (EOB 3.1-2 & 3.6.2: 97-108,141-42 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
  4. "The Arising...[&] Cessation of Suffering" (EOB 3.3-4: 108-20)
  5. "Mahasamghikas"..."Perfection of Wisdom" & "...on Nirvana" (EOB 3.6.3, 4.2-4.3.1: 143, 145-146, 151-62 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
  6. "...Types of Consciousness"..."Sudhana's Vision of the Cosmos" (EOB 4.3.2-6: 145-46, 163-73 <-- READ AS ONE SET)

  7. "Gotami's Story" (BIP, chapter 8: *on SacCT*)
  8. "The Tathagatagarbha Sutra" (BIP, chapter 7: 94-106)
  9. "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)

  10. "Lay Life, Ordination & Arhatship" (LCU, 75-83, 87-92)
  11. "Upagupta and Mara" (LCU, 93, 104-17: *on SacCT*)
  12. "Upagupta and Ashoka" (LCU, 143-46, 154-58, 164-67)
  13. "Saints Criticized & Condemned" (BSI, chapter 5: 151-62 OR 162-73)
  14. "The Solitary Saint" (BSI, chapter 7: 213-18, 232-40)
  15. "Bodhisattva Saints of the Forest in Mahayana Sutras" (BSI, chapter 8: 251-60, 270-74 *OR* 251, 260-69, 275-80)
  16. "Ascetic Traditions of Buddhist Saints" (BSI, chapter 9: 293-307 *OR* 293-97, 308-18)
  17. "...Buddhist Doctrines of Absence & Presence" (BSI, chapter 11, 358-69 *OR* 368-80 *OR* 358-59, 367-69, 381-86)
  18. "...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.

Unit 3

A. From recommended books / on reserve at the library:

  1. 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)
  2. "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)
  3. "The First Monk...& the Emperor"..."Deathbead Admonitions" (EOB 8.1-3, 290-96; 9.1-3: 315-23 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
  4. "Koans"..."Nichiren on Menstruation"..."Monks & Marriage" (EOB 9.5.1, 9.6-7: 326-29, 332-40 <-- READ AS ONE SET)

  5. "Cults of Arhants" (BSI, chapter 6: 179-90 *OR* 187-98 *OR* 179, 187-90, 197-204)
  6. "Buddhist Saints & the Stupa" (BSI, chapter 10: 324-37 OR 333-43, 348-52)
  7. "...Saints & ...Monasticization" (BSI, chapter 12: 396, 410-21)

  8. "Master-Disciple Relations"
    (LCU, 118-33 *OR* 133-44)

  9. "Reading Other's Minds" u(BIP, chapter 4: *on SacCT*)
  10. "Bathing the Buddha" & "Legend of The Iron Stupa " (BIP, chapter 3: 59-68 & chapter 19: 232-35 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
  11. "The Book of Resolving Doubts" (BIP, chapter 15: 187-201)
  12. "Original Enlightenment thought in the Nichiren Tradition" (BIP, chapter 13: 166)
B. Online: C. Films @ the Library Media Center
CAUTION: make sure to describe scenes in terms of the activites and images shown, not just a summary of the story line.

Unit 4

A. From recommended books / on reserve at the library:

  1. "Buddha's Visit to Shri Lanka"..."Controversy" (EOB 6.1: 222-33 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
  2. "King Parakramabahu"..."Festival of Relics"    (EOB 6.3-4: 233-44 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
  3. "Arrival of the Shri Lankan Nuns"..."Monks & Politics"    (EOB 8.7.1: 307-8; 6.6-8: 246-55 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
  4. "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)
  5. "Subduing Demons"..."Efforts of Atisha"..."Casting Spells    (EOB 7.1-3, 7.4.2: 256-64, 269-71 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
  6. "Pilgrimage"..."Milarepa's Quest" (EOB 7.5-6: *on SacCT* <-- READ AS ONE SET)

  7. "Myth...and Ritual Developments" (LCU, 209-13, 226-35)
  8. "Upagupta and the Arhat Cults" (LCU, 236-40, 247-52, 274-76)
  9. "Upagupta as Protector" (LCU, 253-61, 268-72)

  10. "Bimba's Lament" (BIP, chapter 32, 419-30)
  11. "Advice to the Layman" (BIP, chapter 25: 296-310)
  12. "Way to Meditation" & "A Modern Sermon on Merit-Making" (BIP, chapter 12: 157-65 & chapter 24: 293-95 <-- READ AS ONE SET)
  13. "On Becoming a Buddhist Wizard" (BIP, chapter 22: 259-70)
  14. "Two Tantric Meditations" (BIP, 20: 236-45)
  15. "A Lamp for the Path..." (BIP, chapter 17: 208-19)
  16. "...the Original Buddha" & "Journey to Sumatra" (BIP, chapter 5: 82-87 & chapter 31: 409-18)

  17. "The Buddhist Saints & the Two Tiered Model of Buddhism"    (BSI, chapter 1: 15-22, 31-35 OR 15, 23-35)
  18. "Buddhist Saints & the Stupa" (BSI, chapter 10: 337-49)
  19. "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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