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Thai Monks (Theravadan) on morning alms round

 

Questions to Accompany the Text
The World's Religions by Huston Smith

Big Raft and Little
The Secret of the Flower (Zen)


Reading Selections
from The World's Wisdom
source book, Chapter 2

Mahayana Buddhism
Zen Buddhism

Suggested Materials, Resources, and Lesson Plans:

Field Trip to the Vermont Zen Center for tour and introduction in meditation.

Journal Topic (10 minute free writing): Describe a place that is sacred to you and explain why you feel this way.


Theravadan monk performing a healing ritual
(photo from Digital Image Archive in Religious Studies)




 


Tibetan Lamas


Theravadan Novices

This site was created by James C. Blynt at the NEH Summer Institute
"Cultures and Religions of the Himalayan Region," held at the College of the Holy Cross,
Summer 2006