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AQA A-Level Religious Studies 7062
Arguments for the Existence of God
Evil and Suffering
Religious Language
Self and Life After Death
Religious Experience
Ethical Theories
Issues of Human Life and Death
Meta Ethics
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Conscience
Bentham and Kant
Issues of Animal Life and Death
Buddhism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityBuddhism
Buddhism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion, Gender and SexualityBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and ScienceBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and SecularisationBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and Religious PluralismBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with PhilosophyBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with EthicsBuddhism
Buddhism: God and Ultimate RealityBuddhism
Buddhism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeBuddhism
Buddhism: Expression of Religious IdentityBuddhism
Christianity: God and Ultimate RealityChristianity
Christianity: Self, Death and the AfterlifeChristianity
Christianity: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesChristianity
Christianity: Religion, Gender and SexualityChristianity
Christianity: Religion and ScienceChristianity
Christianity: Religion and SecularisationChristianity
Christianity: Religion and Religious PluralismChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with PhilosophyChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with EthicsChristianity
Topic overviewKant, Bentham, Virtue Ethics and Christian EthicsAgape, Consequences and Christian CharacterSanctity of Life, Just War and AnimalsEuthanasia, Capital Punishment and Cloning in ChristianityTheft and Truth-TellingMarriage, Homosexuality and Transgender IssuesGenetic Engineering and WealthTolerance and Freedom of Religious ExpressionFree Will, Moral Responsibility and ConscienceCriticisms of Christian EthicsThe Credibility of Christian Moral AuthorityWhat Christianity Has Given Ethical Studies
Christianity: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityChristianity
Christianity: Expression of Religious IdentityChristianity
Hinduism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityHinduism
Hinduism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesHinduism
Hinduism: Religion, Gender and SexualityHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and ScienceHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and SecularisationHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and Religious PluralismHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with PhilosophyHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with EthicsHinduism
Hinduism: God and Ultimate RealityHinduism
Hinduism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeHinduism
Hinduism: Expression of Religious IdentityHinduism
Islam: God and Ultimate RealityIslam
Islam: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesIslam
Islam: Religion, Gender and SexualityIslam
Islam: Religion and ScienceIslam
Islam: Religion and SecularisationIslam
Islam: Religion and Religious PluralismIslam
Islam: Dialogue with PhilosophyIslam
Islam: Dialogue with EthicsIslam
Islam: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityIslam
Islam: Self, Death and the AfterlifeIslam
Islam: Expression of Religious IdentityIslam
Judaism: God and Ultimate RealityJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with PhilosophyJudaism
Judaism: Religion and ScienceJudaism
Judaism: Religion and SecularisationJudaism
Judaism: Religion and Religious PluralismJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with EthicsJudaism
Topic overviewKant, Bentham and Jewish EthicsConsequences, Character and Jewish EthicsThe Mitzvot and Tikkun OlamSanctity of Life, Animals, Theft and LyingCapital Punishment, Euthanasia and Cloning in JudaismMarriage, Sexuality and Genetic EngineeringWealth, Tolerance and Religious Freedom in JudaismBechirah Chofshit: Free Will and ConscienceOther Ethical Traditions and Jewish EthicsWhat Ethical Criticism Means for Torah and Halakha
Judaism: Religion, Gender and SexualityJudaism
Judaism: Expression of Religious IdentityJudaism
Judaism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityJudaism
Judaism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeJudaism
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Buddhism: Good Conduct and Key Moral Principles
- 5 subtopics
- 14 things to know
- Component 2
- Buddhism, one faith of five studied in Component 2
What Buddhism: Good Conduct and Key Moral Principles covers
Buddhism: the principles governing conduct, the five precepts and six perfections, and ahimsa applied to the unborn child, the treatment of animals and war. Part of Component 2, sat only by students who take Buddhism as their chosen religion.
Where it is assessed
Component 2
Buddhism, one faith of five — the study of religion.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 5 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Moral Conduct, Intention and Free WillRecall questions on the three trainings, intention as karma, kusala and akusala actions and their roots, and the conditioned free will on which Buddhist moral responsibility rests.Open →
- The Five PreceptsRecall questions on the Pancasila and what each of the five precepts requires a Buddhist to abstain from.Open →
- The Six PerfectionsRecall questions on the six paramitas a bodhisattva cultivates, from dana and its three kinds of giving to prajna, the part emptiness plays and how the perfections differ from the five precepts.Open →
- Ahimsa and the UnbornRecall questions on the meaning and reach of ahimsa, the precept grounding it and its bearing on the embryo and unborn child.Open →
- Meat, Animals and War in Buddhist EthicsRecall questions on when Theravada monks may eat meat, the Mahayana approach to vegetarianism, animal experimentation and the presumption against war.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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What karmic consequences arise from an action performed with unwholesome intention, even if the external outcome appears beneficial?
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On what basis is the distinction between kusala and akusala actions made?
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What is the Pañcasīla and what role does it play in Buddhist ethics?
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How do the five precepts differ from commandments in other religious traditions?
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Name the fifth perfection and state what it develops.
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What does the term 'ahimsa' mean and from which language is it derived?
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Which Buddhist precept provides the ethical foundation for ahimsa?
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What two principles must be balanced when Buddhists consider difficult cases involving the unborn child?
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How does the Mahayana Buddhist approach to vegetarianism differ from the Theravada approach?
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What Buddhist concept has been used to argue that violence may occasionally be justified to prevent greater harm?
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What position has the Dalai Lama taken regarding nuclear weapons?
Process
How does conduct support meditation, and what determines the karmic result of an act?
Process
State the first three of the five precepts.
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Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Sila vs Samadhi
Sila: moral conduct, the ethical division of the eightfold path. Samadhi: meditative concentration, the mental division of the path.
Karuna vs Metta
Karuna: compassion, the wish that beings be free from suffering. Metta: loving kindness, the wish that beings be happy.
Kamma vs Vipaka
Kamma: intentional action that conditions future experience. Vipaka: the fruit or result that such action ripens into.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
What are the three essential trainings in Buddhism that form the foundation for spiritual progress?
Model answer
Good moral conduct (sila), meditation (samadhi), and wisdom (panna).
- 2
Why is moral conduct in Buddhism not simply about following rules for their own sake?
Model answer
It is about purifying the mind and reducing suffering for oneself and others.
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How does good conduct support the practice of meditation in Buddhism?
Model answer
Good conduct creates the mental conditions necessary for effective meditation and the development of insight.
- 4
What is the most important factor in determining the moral quality of an action according to Buddhist teaching?
Model answer
Intention (cetana).
- 5
What did the Buddha mean when he stated that karma is intention?
Model answer
The mental volition behind an action determines its karmic consequences.
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If someone acts with wholesome intention but the outcome is unintentionally harmful, what karmic result follows?
Model answer
The action still produces positive karmic results because the intention was wholesome.
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Buddhism: Good Conduct and Key Moral Principles revision questions
- What does Buddhism: Good Conduct and Key Moral Principles cover in AQA A-Level Religious Studies?
- 5 subtopics: moral conduct, intention and free will, the five precepts, the six perfections, ahimsa and the unborn and meat, animals and war in buddhist ethics. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Buddhism: Good Conduct and Key Moral Principles organised?
- By the AQA 7062 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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