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Buddhism: Key Religious Concepts
- 4 subtopics
- 12 things to know
- AS Unit 1
- Buddhism, one religion of six studied in AS Unit 1
What Buddhism: Key Religious Concepts covers
Buddhism: Key Religious Concepts is examined in AS Unit 1, An Introduction to the Study of Religion — the Buddhism option, studied instead of the other five. It covers the three lakshanas: dukkha, anicca and anatta, pratityasamutpada, karma and rebirth, arhat and bodhisattva and Debating the marks of existence, rebirth and the goals of the path.
Where it is assessed
AS Unit 1
An Introduction to the Study of Religion — one religion of six.
Check the WJEC specification ↗The 4 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- The three lakshanas: dukkha, anicca and anattaThree lakshanas, connection the tradition draws between anicca and dukkha and what anatta denies and what it does not deny.Open →
- Pratityasamutpada, karma and rebirthDepicted at the hub of the bhavachakra, six realms shown in the bhavachakra and shown outside the wheel.Open →
- Arhat and bodhisattvaFour stages of Awakening recognised in the Theravada tradition, title arhat and bodhisattva as the Mahayana tradition uses the term.Open →
- Debating the marks of existence, rebirth and the goals of the pathRecall questions on whether the three lakshanas describe reality, the difficulty of anatta, karma and rebirth, dependent origination, silence about God, and the arhat and bodhisattva ideals.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Explain the relationship between wisdom and compassion in the bodhisattva ideal.
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Why is dependent origination described as a wheel rather than a line?
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Give the case that the three lakshanas accurately describe reality.
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Why is dukkha often left untranslated rather than rendered as suffering?
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What is depicted at the hub of the bhavachakra, and what do those figures mean?
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Which fetters does the stream-winner break?
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Argue that other teachings matter more than the three lakshanas.
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Define anicca.
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What is shown outside the wheel, and what does it teach?
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What distinguishes the once-returner?
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Why do some hold that anatta is the most difficult of the three marks to accept?
Take Buddhism: Key Religious Concepts further
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Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What are the three lakshanas?
Model answer
They are the three marks said to characterise all conditioned existence: dukkha, anicca and anatta.
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Give the range of meaning covered by the term dukkha.
Model answer
It covers physical pain and grief, but also the frustration and unsatisfactoriness of experiences that cannot last or fully satisfy.
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Why is dukkha often left untranslated rather than rendered as suffering?
Model answer
Suffering suggests only pain, whereas dukkha includes pleasant experiences that disappoint because they change and cannot be kept.
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Which discourse contains the Buddha's first statement of dukkha, and where was it given?
Model answer
It is the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, delivered to the five former companions in the deer park at Isipatana.
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According to that first discourse, what instances of dukkha does the Buddha list?
Model answer
He names birth, ageing, sickness, death, union with what is disliked, separation from what is loved, and not getting what one wants.
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How does the first discourse sum up dukkha in a single phrase?
Model answer
It states that in brief the five aggregates of clinging are dukkha.
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Buddhism: Key Religious Concepts revision questions
- What does Buddhism: Key Religious Concepts cover in WJEC A-Level Religious Studies?
- 4 subtopics: the three lakshanas: dukkha, anicca and anatta, pratityasamutpada, karma and rebirth, arhat and bodhisattva and debating the marks of existence, rebirth and the goals of the path. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Buddhism: Key Religious Concepts organised?
- By the WJEC 603-0277-X specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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