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Select and explain the religious teachings and beliefs that might influence Buddhists in their daily lives
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Collette Lewis GCSE RE Coursework: Buddhist 2002 Question 1: Select and explain the religious teachings and beliefs that might influence Buddhists in their daily lives Through doing my research in order to answer this question I found out that there are many different teachings and beliefs that might influence Buddhists in their daily lives. Firstly there is the life of Siddhartha Gotama. He had a 'perfect' life with everything you could want, money, a wife, a child power etc. However as we know nothing is ever perfect and he felt something was missing. When he visited the city to search for the meaning of life he saw four sites. An old man, a sick man, a dead man and a holy man. The only man who looked happy was the holy man and all he had were the rags he was wearing and his bowl. Sid then became and ascetic and gave...
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