Ethics Paper 1 Buddhist Beliefs

Question 1

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What are the 3 Poisons?

These are causes of Dukkha (Suffering) that affect all human beings.

Answer 1

Ignorance, Greed and Hate

Question 2

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What does Dependent Arising mean?

Answer 2

The belief that everything exists because other things do; everything is interconnected and everyone affects everyone else. (Paticcasamuppada)

Question 3

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What is Dukkha?

Answer 3

Belief that all life includes suffering and unsatisfactoriness(Belief that there is no fixed self/no soul and also 1 of the 3 marks of existance)

Question 4

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What are the 4 Sights?

Answer 4

Teachings from the Jakarta Tales (075) about Siddharta Gautama’s experiences of sick man,old man, dead man and holy man

Question 5

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What is an Arhat?

Answer 5

An Arhat is a perfected person.
In Therevada Buddhism this is a term for a person who has become enlightened.

Question 6

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What is Buddhahood?

Answer 6

Buddhahood means reaching elightenment

Question 7

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What is the 8 Fold Path?

Answer 7

The 4th Noble Truth. Known as the middle way. It includes the way to wisdom; mental training and the way of morality. 8 stages to be practised simultaneously.

Question 8

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What are the 8 stages of the 8 Fold Path?

Answer 8

Right Understanding
Right Intention
These 2 are wisdom

Right Speech
Right Action
Right Livelihood
These 3 are ethics

Right Effort
Right Concentration
Right Mindfulness
These 3 are meditation

Question 9

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What is Zen?

Practice of Meditation -
Key Ingredient: ……. true inner nature + co

Answer 9

Zen is a school of Buddhism that emphasizes the practice of meditation as the key ingredient to awakening one’s inner nature, compassion, and wisdom.

Question 10

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What are the 3 Marks of Existence?

Answer 10

Impermanence (Anicca)
Suffering (Dukkha)
No self /no soul (Anatta)

Question 11

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What is the 3 Fold Way?

Answer 11

The 3 divisions of the 8 Fold Path; Ethics, meditation and wisdom

Question 12

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What is Anicca?

Answer 12

Impermanence (the belief that nothing is permanent and is one of the 3 marks of existence)

Question 13

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What is Anatta?

Answer 13

The belief that there is no fixed self/no soul (One of the 3 marks of existance

Question 14

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What is the PureLand?

Answer 14

Focuses on chanting the name of Amitabha Buddha (This is the dominant form of Buddhism in Japan)

Question 15

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What is an Ascetic?

Answer 15

A life free from world pleasures, and involves giving up pf material possessions. An ascetic life often has the aim of persuing religious and spiritual goals.

Question 16

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What is Enlightenment?

Answer 16

A statue of wisdom that enables total clarity and understanding of the truths of existence; achieving enlightenment (Buddhahood) allows a being to be freed from the cycle of rebirth.

Question 17

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What is a Bodhisattva?

Answer 17

In Mahayana Buddhism this is being destined for enlightenment, who postpones their final escape from Samsara and the cycle of death, rebirth and suffering.

Question 18

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What is the Bhavachakra?

Answer 18

The Tibetan Wheel of Life showing understanding of birth, death and rebirth.

Question 19

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What is the Dhamma?

Answer 19

The Dhamma is the teachings of the Buddha; these are ultimate truth

Question 20

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What is Buddha Nature?

Answer 20

In Mahayana Buddism this refers to the fundamental nature of all beings, which means that all beings can become enlightened /each Buddhahood

Question 21

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What are the 4 Noble Truths?

Answer 21

Suffering (Dukkha)
The cause of suffering (Samudaya)
The end of suffering (Nirodha)
The path to end suffering (Magga)

Question 22

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What is Mahayana?

Answer 22

Literally means ‘greater vehicle’.
This school of Buddhism is focused on achieving enlightenment for the sake of all beings (main school of Buddhism in China, Tibet and Japan)

Question 23

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What is Panna?

Answer 23

Panna = Wisdom

Question 24

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What is Nibbana?

Answer 24

Literally means ‘blowing out’ the belief that individuals can achieve a state of perfect peace where they experience liberation from the cycle of birth,death and rebirth.

Question 25

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What is Samadhi?

Samadhi Medtation

Answer 25

Meditation - a spiritual experience that opens a person up to the highest state of consciousness; one of the Mahayana’s 6 perfections and part of the 8 Fold Path.

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What is Samudaya?

Answer 26

The cause of suffering (the 2nd Noble Truth)

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What is Sila?

Answer 27

Ethics - moral principles that inform behaviour and attitudes; part of the 8 Fold Path

Question 28

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What is Sunyata?

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Literally means ‘emptiness’. Mahayana belief about the absence of an intrinsic nature of self - identity.

Question 29

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What is Tanha?

Answer 29

Craving - the Ongoing State of desire which causes suffering; grasping at things we want / enjoy.

Question 30

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What does Theravada mean?

Answer 30

The school of Buddhism mainly found in Sri Lanka and Thailand; it is an older tradition than Mahayana.

Question 31

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What are the 5 Aggregates (Skandhas)?

Answer 31

The belief that human beings are composed of five factors:
(form, senastion,perception,mental formations, consciousness)

Question 32

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What is Bodhisattva Ideal?

Answer 32

The Mahayana goal for everyone to become bodhisattvas and help free sentient beings from Samsara and the cycle of death, rebirth and suffering.

Question 33

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What is Dhammapada 190 - 191?

Answer 33

“He who has gone for refuge to the Buddha, the Teaching and his Order, penetrates with transcendental wisdom the 4 Noble Truths - suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the Noble 8 Fold Path leading to the cessation of suffering”