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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
The Buddha’s four central teachings: suffering exists, it has causes, it can cease, and the Eightfold Path leads to its cessation.
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Paper 1
Revise: Four Noble TruthsThe Four Noble Truths are central to the Buddha’s teaching. Buddhist tradition describes them as truths he understood at his Enlightenment and then taught to his first five followers. They explain both the problem of suffering and the possibility of overcoming it.
Paper 1
The Buddhist teaching that suffering exists, craving causes suffering, suffering can cease, and the Noble Eightfold Path leads towards its cessation.
Revise: Wealth and Poverty in BuddhismThe Four Noble Truths and Siddhartha’s departure from luxury support the warning that possessions cannot provide lasting freedom from suffering.
Use Dhammapada 190–191 to support explanations of how the Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path lead towards the end of suffering.
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