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Buddhism: Beliefs and Teachings The Buddha and Angulimala

Questions to Accompany the Text
The World's Religions by Huston Smith

The Four Noble Truths
The Eightfold Path
Basic Buddhist Concepts

Reading Selections
from The World's Wisdom
source book, Chapter 2

Core Doctrines:
The Four Noble Truths
The Eightfold Path
And Other Basic Buddhist Concepts

Suggested Materials, Resources, and Lesson Plans:

	The Buddha and the Terrorist: the Story of Angulimala by Satish Kumar. Read and discuss (Suggestions: Read aloud at the start of class over a period of several days; Discuss in the context of recent world events, especially as regards terrorism, war, forgiveness, reconciliation, etc.)
"Letting Go" Activity
Lesson Plans on the Central Ideas of Buddhism: The Story of the Buddha and the Four Noble Truths Mahayana Buddhism and the Bodhisattva Guanyin Buddhist Moral Teachings