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A thinker from this tradition differentiated compassion’s “near enemy,” pity, from its “far enemy,” cruelty. For 10 points each:
[10e] Buddhaghosa (“buddha-GO-suh”) was a philosopher of which of the two major traditions of Buddhism? This tradition’s thinkers often embraced direct realism, in contrast to the Mādhyamaka (“MAHD-yuh-muh-kuh”) and Yogācāra (“yoga-CHAH-ruh”) schools of the other, newer tradition.
ANSWER: Theravāda Buddhism [or Theravādans]
[10h] The Theravāda concept of bhavaṅga (“buh-VUNG-guh”), or “life-continuum,” is analogous to this concept of the Yogācāra school. The karmic seeds that “ripen” in this type of consciousness are the source of conscious intentional objects.
ANSWER: storehouse consciousness [or ālaya-vijñāna; accept basic, ground-of-all, all-ground, or stratum-bound in place of “storehouse”]
[10m] Buddhaghosa offered a hermeneutical, rather than ontological, interpretation of this Buddhist doctrine that differentiates “conventional” and “ultimate” interpretations of reality.
ANSWER: two truths doctrine [or dvasatya; or sammuti–paramattha distinction]
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