Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism: A by Torkel Brekke
By Torkel Brekke
Why did humans in North India from the fifth century BC decide to depart the area and sign up for the sect of the Buddha? this can be the 1st booklet to use the insights of social psychology that allows you to comprehend the spiritual motivation of the folks who constituted the early Buddhist neighborhood. It additionally addresses the extra common and theoretically debatable query of ways international religions come into being, through targeting the conversion strategy of the person believer.
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The Sam≥gha must protect its purity from corruption. This concern with the purity of the group is a typical feature of the introversionist sect. 50 that a boy under 15 years old should not be allowed to go forth. These are important regulations contributing to the organization of the Sam≥gha and the tightening of its borders. 51 the puzzling exception is made that a boy under 15 years old can be allow to go forth if he is able to scare crows. 56–60 rules concerning novices are given by the Buddha.
Of course, it is always problematic to use terms and concepts that have very specific meanings in one historical context to describe the state of affairs in a very different setting. A critical discussion of the very idea of conversion and its applicability in a Buddhist context seems to be required in a study of the religious motivation of Buddhists and the social psychology of the relationship between Sam≥gha and laity. There is a discrepancy in the way that Buddhist texts present the conversion process of the Buddha and some other central figures, on the one hand, and the impression we get of the conversion process of people who were already part of the broader religious milieu of the period, on the other.
Haka¤sî¤ of Therî¤ga¤tha¤ XXII joins the Sam≥gha to escape her life as a prostitute. The same is the case for Ambapa¤lî¤ of Therî¤ga¤tha¤ LXVI. ’7 But it was not only Buddhists who were extrinsically motivated. Or, to put it differently, people who wanted to adopt a religious life in the pursuit of an easy living sometimes had other, and perhaps better, opportunities than the Buddhist Sam≥gha. 8 24 THE EARLY SAM≥ GHA AND THE LAITY Thus, according to Warder, Buddhism originated in a religious environment in which extrinsic motivation was common.