Assignment Requirements   First make sure you will read the articles that I upload There are four schools of Buddhism in China (two philosophical/doctrinal: tiantai and huayan and two practical: chan and Pure land) that had no Indian analogue. These schools also spread to Korea and Japan where further developments took place. Given that East Asia was culturally different from India and/or Central Asia, Buddhism could not be transplanted as it was but had to accommodate and adapt to new environment. Discuss some of the East Asian Buddhist developments with attention to the impact of indigenous traditions and their worldviews whenever applicable. Space for Korean and Japanese developments should be less than the space for China. Pertinent questions to ask to get started: How did the sinifid schools address the primacy of soteriology that was the hallmark of Indian Buddhism? To break down this question further: How was human potential for ending suffering viewed in East Asian Budd

Assignment Requirements   I have some questions that need to be answered using the book (textbook) Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Islam� religion, History, and Civilization. HarperCollins Publisher, 2003.ISBN: 0060507144 thank you and please write just enough to fill the lines give in the attachment thank you Student Name: _________________                                    score: ____________________

1. What does it mean that “Islam is a monotheistic religion but not a monolithic reality”? And what are the foundations of its unity and the central elements of its diversity? (10 pts)

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