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Issues and
Challenges in
Mahayana Buddhism
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Same with other
religious association,
Mahayana
Buddhism faced issues
and challenges towards
their beliefs.
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Essential
Question
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Learning
Competency This lesson serves as an enrichment lesson for
the following DepEd competency:
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Learning ● Describe the foundation of different
Objectives Mahayana sects.
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Yes or No
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Instructions
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Yes or No
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Example
Statement Yes No
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Yes or No
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No. 1
Statement Yes No
Women can be a
Buddha
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Yes or No
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No. 2
Statement Yes No
Mahayana
Buddhism
is widely spread in
East Asian Nations.
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Yes or No
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No. 3
Statement Yes No
Conflicts between
religious institutions
and political
institutions can
happen.
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Guide Question
Explore
1. What are your thoughts about the
given statements?
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Guide Question
Explore
2. Do you think that these statements
are possibly related to the events that
currently happen? Why? Explain your
answer.
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Guide Question
Explore
3. List down three things that you would
like to know more about the issues and
challenges faced by the Mahayana
Buddhists.
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Mahayana Sects
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Universality and Growth of Mahayana Buddhist Sects
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Chan Buddhism
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Chan Buddhism
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Chan Buddhism
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Chan Buddhism
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Zen Buddhism
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Zen Buddhism
Zazen
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Tibetan Buddhism
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Tibetan Buddhism
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Tibetan Buddhism
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What are the distinctive features of Mahayana
Check Your
Progress
Buddhist sects?
Chan Zen Tibetan
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Issues Towards Mahayana Buddhism
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Tibetan Invasion
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Tibetan Invasion
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Engaged Activism
Vietnam
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Engaged Activism
Vietnam
Thich Quang Duc committed
self-immolation.
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Engaged Activism
Japan
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Check Your How do these challenges faced by the
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Mahayana Buddhists reflect their religiosity?
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Current Challenges and Issues Towards Mahayana Buddhism
Mahayana Buddhist
women have been
considered as secondary
to men. Buddhist women
played less significant role
than men.
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Current Challenges and Issues Towards Mahayana Buddhism
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Current Challenges and Issues Towards Mahayana Buddhism
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Current Challenges and Issues Towards Mahayana Buddhism
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What are your thoughts about the condition of
Check Your Buddhist women? Is there still societal
Progress
inequality toward them nowadays?
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An album entitled Inner
World by the Dalai Lama
In Philippine
Context
was released.
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Inner World made it to Number 8 on the
In Philippine
Context Billboard Charts.
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Completion. Complete the sentence. Choose the
Try This! correct word from the given options.
en_____enment medi_____n
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Completion. Complete the sentence. Choose the
Try This! correct word from the given options.
___na ___an
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Completion. Complete the sentence. Choose the
Try This! correct word from the given options.
13th 14th
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Completion. Complete the sentence. Choose the
Try This! correct word from the given options.
___ia ___ea
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Completion. Complete the sentence. Choose the
Try This! correct word from the given options.
b___ed st___ed
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Completion. Complete the sentence. Choose the
Try This! correct word from the given options.
___eito ___en
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Completion. Complete the sentence. Choose the
Try This! correct word from the given options.
___duism ___ism
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Completion. Complete the sentence. Choose the
Try This! correct word from the given options.
koa__ shikan____
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Completion. Complete the sentence. Choose the
Try This! correct word from the given options.
I__ian T__etan
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Completion. Complete the sentence. Choose the
Try This! correct word from the given options.
____ralist ___ialist
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Wrap-Up ● Mahayana Buddhism has reached different
nations in Asia. It also founded its sects such as
Chan Buddhism in China, which became Zen
Buddhism when introduced in Japan, and
Tibetan Buddhism in Tibet.
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Wrap-Up ● Because of the Chinese invasion in Tibet, the
Dalai Lama then decided to leave Tibet and go
to India to live there as a refugee.
● Mahayana Buddhism encounters challenges
and debates concerning its stance on various
contemporary issues, including birth control,
divorce, abortion, and sexual orientation.
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Challenge Answer the question.
Yourself
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Photo Credits
● Slide 2: MahayanaMap.gif by World Imaging is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
● Slide 3: Contemplative Buddhist monks from Bhutan by Steve Evans is licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia
Commons
● Slide 17: Chinese Buddha Character Fo by gill_penney is licensed under CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
● Slide 19: Kashyapa muni statue in Andhra Pradesh by Skrikar Kashyap is licensed under CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia
Commons
● Slide 20: Yin and yang diagram Wuji by Iruka13 is licensed under CC0 via Wikipedia
● Slide 22: Meditation Zazen Meditate Buddhism Zen Buddhism by Eugeniohansenofs is licensed under CC0 via
Pixabay
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Photo Credits
● Slide 24: Tibetan Bowl Buddhism Zen Meditation Buddhist by gracielazerpaurbina is licensed under CC0 via
Pixabay
● Slide 25: Tenzin Gyatso - 14th Dalai Lama by Christopher Michel is licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikipedia
● Slide 30: Mao Tse-tung - panoramio by Georg Denda is licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
● Slide 32: Thích Quảng Đức by Ngo Trung is licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
● Slide 38: abortion pregnancy by Victoruler is licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Noun Project
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Bibliography
Cornelio, Jayeel Serrano, Mark Joseph Tumada Calano, and Manuel Victor Jamias Sapitula. Introduction to World
Religions and Belief Systems. Manila, Philippines: Rex Book Store, 2016.
Gil, Baby A. “Into the Inner World with the Dalai Lama.”Philstar.com. Philstar.com, July 26, 2020.
https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2020/07/27/2030738/inner-world-dalai-lama.
Napoleon, Mabaquiao M. The Padayon Series: Introduction to World Religion and Belief System. Quezon City,
Philippines: Phoenix Publishing House, 2018.
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