three jewels

• how do the lay people help the monastics


  - the lay people help to ensure the survival of the monastics
• how do the Theravada Buddhist understand the dhamma


  - its understood as only teaching of historical buddha

  - accounts of traditional account or teachings based only buddha as 3 baskets: Vinaya pitaya, sutta pitaya, ashidhamma pitaya
• how do the mahayana Buddhist understand the dhamma


  he sees the importance of buddhas teachings but he's isn't the only source of teachings there's other great teachings
• give some quotes about the importance of dhamma


  - ' little dust in their eyes , who not hearing the dhamma, are decaying'

  - 'he was a gifted teacher and was always taught at the level of the listener - Damien Cush
• what is the dhamma


  - written record of the buddha teachings passed down through oral traditions

  -dhamma contains the universal truth

  - collection of teachings including arhats and the bodhisats

  -contains the way of life; e.g. the Nobel truths, eight fold path
• what is the symbolic buddha


  symbolic buddha shows the potential to achieve enlightenment
• what is the historical buddha


  historical buddha shows how it is actually possible to achieve enlightenment
• which buddha do the Mahayana think is significant


  buddha is significant in the historical and symbolical sense
• which buddha do the Theravada think is significant


  buddha is significant in the historical sense
• significance of the buddhas ministry


  - showed importance of humility even in his death

  -people became enlightened just through the buddhas death;

  'his teaching is so powerful that one of the .. gained immediate insight' Damien Cush

  - his death is significance to shows nobody can escape suffering/dukkha
• what are the Theravada ethics that are based on restraint


  -not to commit evil

  -to practice all good

  -keep the heart pure

  -this is the teaching of the buddha
• what are the Mahayana ethics that are based on emptiness


  -gain and loss, right and wrong

  -such thoughts must be abolished at once