Final Paper Due on: Friday 12/08/06 While most of the texts we have read in this class were oriented primarily toward serious religious practitioners, the texts collected in Songs of Wisdom and Tantric Treasures were propagated among ordinary laypersons. What are some of the ways these last texts reflect this lay orientation in both their form and content? In your answer, compare the two texts together or separately to others we have read in the class, examining continuities as well as differences.
Papers should be about 5 pages long. You can hand them in to me in my office from 3:00 to 4:00 on Friday, December 8. If you are done earlier you may leave your paper in my mailbox in 381 Rockefeller.
Paper #3 Due on: Thursday 11/16/06 Discuss the relationships between visual imagination, auditory perception, and physical awareness evident in two of the following texts: Trainings in Compassion, The Serpent Power, and The Book of Sufi Healing. In what ways do the relationships between image, sound, and body found in these texts seem coherent with the doctrines of the broader religious traditions in which they are rooted?szs
Write about four pages. Papers are due in my box in 381 Rockefeller by 4:00 Thursday November 16.
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