Buddhist Attitudes Towards Life, Suffering and Death
Subjects / Religious Studies / Buddhism
This title, 'Buddhist Attitudes Towards Life, Suffering and Death', looks at Buddhist attitudes towards moral issues and matters of life and death. The first chapter focuses on attitudes towards equality, such as those between men and women, as well as racism, wealth and poverty. The chapter also describes the concept of 'metta', which is a Buddhist belief that everything and everyone should be treated with loving kindness. The second chapter explains what Buddhists believe about creation and the sacredness of life. It also looks at Buddhist views towards the environment and animals. The third chapter, 'Buddhist Attitudes towards Matters of Life and Death', explains Buddhist views towards modern issues such as abortion, genetic engineering, euthanasia, suicide and capital punishment.
| Author: | Jonathan Beaufort-Jones | Publisher: | GCSEPod® |
| Narrator: | Carol McGuigan | ISBN: | 978-1-84906-012-7 |
| Video ISBN: | 978-1-84906-512-2 |
Chapters
- Buddhist Attitudes Towards Equality, Justice, War and Peace
- Buddhists, the Sanctity of Life and the Environment
- Buddhist Attitudes towards Matters of Life and Death
Exam Board Relevance
- Edxcel
- AQA
- CEA
- IGCSE (EdExcel)
- OCR
- SQA
- WJEC
- IGCSE (CiE)
Includes original GCSEPod image art
Curriculum and Exam Board Information
Key Issues
Titles
Chapters
- Buddha's teaching on lovingkindness and compassion
- Principles of non violence
- Example of the life and teaching of the Dalai Lama in promoting justice and peaceful change
- Almsgiving and receiving
- Problems of abiding by Buddhist principles in the world today
- Buddha's teaching on loving kind-ness and compassion (metta)
- The Four Noble Truths
- The Eightfold Path
- The deluded mind/ equanimity/ ignorance
- Kamma (karma)
- The Five Precepts
- Harmony with nature
- Attitudes to abortion
- Issues of organ donation and genetic engineering
- Attitudes to capital punishment
- Prejudice and discrimination - with reference to race and religion
- The role and status of women
- Wealth
- poverty
- Ahimsa
- Suffering
- Abortion
- euthanasia
- suicide
- Respect and concern for the created world
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