SOR 2 - Tips & Tricks for Success PDF

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Religion - Tips/Course Notes  Do the essay first during the exam Stand-alone vs. Integrated Essay:  Stand-alone - person, practice, ethics o E.g. big stimulus that asks you to reflect/evaluate on the role of a religious tradition in achieving something, e.g. remaining relevant  Integrated - two people/practices or ethics o E.g. “ethical guidance” doesn’t always mean a stand-alone essay, but it can also mean an integrated essay on multiple sources of ethical guidance.  Integrate your stimulus — reference it/use it within your essay more than once. If you only bring the stimulus in once, you won’t be able to achieve that higher band.  Learn/gather some fairly generic quotes that are relevant across all topics. Buddhism - Significant Person (Ashoka): o Important to separate the contribution of the person from their actual impact. 1. “More about how you live it than what you know” 2. Took Buddhism out into the community 3. Established things… o Established social structures o Established the pillars/stupas of Buddhism    

Buddha, Dharma, Sangha (the man, the teachings, the community) 3 Jewels - 3 main contributions 5 PRECEPTS, 3 BIOETHICAL TEACHINGS Impact of Buddhism - straight AFTER his lifetime and then how it continues to be significant/relevant today o Mention the variants of Buddhism - as Ashoka started out in Sri Lanka and then it spread further on to Asia. IMPACT was on the three variants:  Mahayana  Vajryana  Theravada o Relevance today - another significant person who you can bring in to your responses, e.g. Dalai Lama  Visual symbol that is still on the flag of India - symbol of peace and stability brought by Ashoka. Indian people have/continue to remember/carry on the good works and traditions left by Ashoka.

Buddhism - Bioethics: o The need to preserve the life of any sentient being; be it an animal or human o Compassion - for others around you, doing good, right, moral, just things o Karma - inner purity (a belief) - but “doing the right thing” or trying to increase your good karma by doing the right thing is a form of “doing” something o Dana (generosity) a form of compassion is where the teachings are based on. Apply these teachings/Dana to the actions/bioethical issues — then bring in the ethical precepts  Theravada - T for “traditional” being stuck In the old times/teachings, (absolutists)’

Buddhism - Pilgrimage: o Actions are not so important - as there isn’t many of them o Order Is important - The Buddha’s life started in the northern part of Nepal, what is now India. o Birth Place o Revelation about nirvana o Bodh Gaya o Deer Park o Kushinagar (death place) o Buddha made the sites holy/heritage/important and put stupas there that gave guidance for behaviours and actions within Buddhism o Significance - what you get out of/what you attain by visiting the sites/doing the things that you do o Putting offerings at the pilgrimage sites - sense of individuality, making an offering/even praying in an attempt to connect with the story of the Buddha, how you can better yourself as a person — increasing individual good Karma o Tour of the sites, read stupas, walk in the paths of Ashoka o Personal devotion/looking at/meditating around statues o Connection with the community (sangha) o Return to home life, bringing back what you have learnt...