What Is Diversity? What Does It Mean To You? Why Is It Impor

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What is diversity? What does it mean to you? Why is it important, or is it? Have you had a remarkable or memorable diversity experience? Reading Guide for Tripitaka from The Great Chinese Travelers , edited by Jeannette Mirsky, University of Chicago Press, 1964.

1. How does Tripitaka early life foreshadow his journey? Why does he go on his journey? 2. When does Tripitaka pray and what for?

What kinds of supernatural interventions do we see in this story? 3. What examples do we see of Tripitaka’s interactions people whose beliefs differ from his own? With other schools of Buddhism? 4.

What dangers does Tripitaka face? How does he survive/escape them? 5. How would you describe Tripitaka’s relationships with political leaders? With religious leaders?

6. How would you describe Tripitaka’s personality? What effect does he have on the people that he encounters? 7. What information does Tripitaka give us about women’s lives, family life and gender roles in Asia?

8. What happens in the Great Debate? What happens in the Great Almsgiving? What happens when Tripitaka returns home? 9.

Choose 2 quotations from different sections of the biography which you either really liked, really hated, didn’t understand or simply found interesting and discussion-worthy. Give each quote, with the page number it occurs on, and write a paragraph explaining why you chose each quotation. You may want to consider questions like: How does it fit in with what we’ve learned thus far, or represent something completely new? How does it give you insight or not? Viewing Guide for The Buddha , PBS Key Terms Part 1 : The Buddha’s mother and the circumstances surrounding his birth, Ganges river, “seeker,†the ancient Vedic religion, Hindu priests, renuniciants, Siddhartha’s previous lives, Siddhartha’s spiritual teachers, yoga, deprivation/asceticism, social functions of religion, the buddha’s enlightenment, the Four Noble Truths Part 2 : Nirvana, the teachings, the middle way, the Four Noble Truths, “suffering,†the Noble Eightfold path, the sangha, women in the sangha, emotions, candle and water metaphors, early Buddhist monastic life, “burning†metaphor, miracle stories, the story of the Buddha’s death, Buddhism in India after the Buddha’s death, the spread of Buddhism through Asia, “the lotus,†film producer David Grubin.

Questions to bear in mind : How does the director of this film choose to tell this story? What works for you about this director’s choices, and what doesn’t work? (You might want to comment on things like, pacing, color, animation, interviews, narration, visual scenes/background, language, humor) Which character or interviewee is your favorite? What is one of your favorite images or scenes? What is your favorite line? What is your favorite story and why?

What do you think of the style of the movie overall? What specific things do you like? What surprised you most in this movie? How does this documentary illustrate the concepts of the relationship between universal and particularistic religions? Are there any components of the film that challenge the ideas laidout by Johnson and Johnson?

Give a couple of specific examples. What are some of the ways that the movie supports or reinforces some of the specific material about Buddhism that is introduced in Johnson and Johnson? Give a couple of specific examples. What are some of the ways that the movie challenges or contradicts some of the material about Buddhism presented in Johnson and Johnson? Watching guide for the BBC movie Nubia , narrated by Gus Casely-Hayford Key terms (not in order of appearance), Kerma, Jebel Barkal, Nubia, Egypt, cattle, Amun, pyramids, iron, the role of the environment, camels, well technology, wrestling, definitions of wealth, the relationship between cattle and kingship, cattle skulls.

Things to watch for and take notes in this movie (which could be on a test): Complex and changing relationship between Nubia and Egypt Relationships between local religions and later religions like Islam. Role of Cattle Relationship between past and present in this region Definitions of greatness, civilization and barbarity used by Gus Casely-Hayford. What evidence does the movie show to support claims/conclusions? What visual aspects of the movie teach you, what suprises you in the film? Compare Gus Casely-Hayford with John Green. Extra Credit: What do you make of the scene of Gus wrestling?