The Biographies of the Assassin-Retainers

Questions for discussion:

1) What concepts of loyalty, self-worth, courage, and right and wrong are expressed in these texts?

2) Write your own assassin-retainer story. What did you find turning out different when you as an American wrote the story?

3) What would you be willing to die for? How is it different from what the assassin-retainers were willing to die for?

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LINKS:

Buddhist Reflections on the story of Yu Jang   http://www.saigon.com/~hoasen/Vbm-life-destinity.html http://www.blia.org/english/publications/booklet/pages/03.htm  http://www.ibps.org/boston/GBBCC/Booklets/03LifeDestiny/03LifeDestiny.html

Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"  http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/suntzu.html