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Please answer the questions below, and upload them within 1 hour and 45 minutes(Tips are possible). If you cannot finish on time PLEASE do not take the task, Thank you!
There would be 10 questions need to be done and no words count requirement. Assignment will be graded based on whether the answer shows you understood the material, whether you give a completed answer to the whole question and whether your answer is well written and structured.
What are the Vedas and how are they related to the Upanishads?
What is Atman like according to the Upanishads? How do the Upanishads argue for this conception of Atman?
What do the Jains mean by Karma? What is its role in suffering?
How does the story of the life of Buddha dramatically illustrate the First Noble Truth?
What do Buddhists mean by "desire"? How can we test if someone is in a state of desire as conceived by Buddhism?
What are the two aspects of ignorance according to Buddhists? What are we ignorant of?
According to Buddhism, conceptual descriptions or definitions are constructions useful for organizing thinking. Do they actually correspond to, or mirror, reality. Why or why not?
What is the purpose of mindfulness in Buddhist philosophy? Of what can we be mindful?
How do the Sarvastivadins interpret interdependent arising? How does the Mahayana tradition respond to the Sarvastivadin interpretation?
Why is the Madhymaka approach to Buddhism known as "The Middle Way"? How does it reconcile and correct the substantialist and nihilistic interpretations?