Ethical
Doctrinal
- Law concerns what you must do and what will happen if you don't (behavior)
- Law of Karma.
- Five Precepts , ideal of compassion,Karma
Creeds,doctrines,or teachings the adherents believe
Middle Way, Three Marks of Existence, Four Noble Truths,Rebirth
- Made up stories which explain and inspire.
- Mythic dimension is directly relevant to life and death of buddha himself and boddhisattvas.
Ritual
- what the adherents of a religion do as part of that religion
- Mahayana acts of religious devotion and prayer to the bodhisattvas, Vajrayana chanting of mandalas and practice of mudras, Meditation
The Seven Dimensions of Buddhism
- Related to experience and intangible
- Enlightenment, nirvana
- Experiential is the emotional side and related to faith
- Goes on the inside of a person.
Material
Social
- Physical forms in which a religion is represented.
- Bodhi tree, mandalas,buddhist temple
- how people's interactions are organized as part of their religion
- Sangha, figure of arhat, Dalai Lama
The Seven Dimensions of Buddhism