BUDDHISM: EAST ASIAN

4.00 points · University catalogue

CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement Lecture and discussion. An introductory survey that studies East Asian Buddhism as an integral , living religious tradition. Emphasis on the reading of original treatises and historiographies in translation, while historical events are discussed in terms of their relevance to contemporary problems confronted by Buddhism. There is a mandatory weekly discussion session