AQA GCSE Religious Studies A · 8062
Paper 1
Suffering and unsatisfactoriness, which Buddhists believe are features of life.
Revise: Concept of DhammaFor example, Buddhism teaches that life includes dukkha—suffering and unsatisfactoriness. This includes obvious suffering, such as illness, but also the fact that life does not always give people lasting satisfaction. Understanding this is part of understanding reality.
- Revise: Three Marks of Existence
- Revise: Life of the Buddha
Suffering or unsatisfactoriness: ordinary life cannot provide permanent satisfaction because its conditions change.
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- Revise: Four Noble Truths
Suffering, dissatisfaction or unsatisfactoriness, including physical pain, mental distress and the inability of impermanent experiences to provide lasting fulfilment.
- Revise: Five Moral Precepts
Suffering or unsatisfactoriness in life, which Buddhist practice seeks to overcome.