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Buddhism’s religious context

In the first of a two-part AQA special, Richard Gray considers the religious background of the Buddha in order to understand the platform from which his specific teachings about samsara developed

AQA: AS Unit J: World Religions 1: Buddhism (RSS09)

The first topic in the AQA specification for RSS09 Buddhism is ‘Samsara and the three marks of existence’. Although such teachings may be considered in abstract, the truth is that they emerged from the context of the Buddha’s upbringing and later experiences of life.

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