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- - - - The Significance of Siddartha Gautama for Theravadan Buddhists
        
        Reference to his authority as a role model and his authority as the 'Enlightened One'
      - The Mahayanan View that the life and teaching of the Buddha was Skillful Means
        
        Reference to the Parable of the Burning House
    - - Is Buddhism Pessimistic?
    - - Nature and Authority
      - Different Views about it's Accuracy
      - Relevance to Buddhists
      - Use in Worship and Daily Life
  - - - Meaning and Importance for Buddhists
      - Development of the Mahayana Doctrine
    - - In this Life and After Death
      - As Beyond Understanding and Indescribable
        
        Attempts to describe it
      - 80th Dilemma of King Milinda
  - - - 5 Aggregates
      - Analogy of the Chariot (King Milinda)
    - - The Cycle of Birth, Death, Rebirth
      - Karma
        
        It's Role in the Wheel of Becoming
      - The Realms of Becoming
        
        Interpretations
        
        Literal
        
        Metaphorical
        
        Psychological
      - Tibetan Buddhists view of the Dalai Lama as an expression of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara.
  - - - Kusala (healthy)
      - Akusala (unhealthy
    - - the concept of ahimsa
      - Application
        
        Embryo/Unborn children
        
        treatment of animals
        
        War
        
        weapons of mass destruction
      - Different buddhist views
  - - - Monastic Sangha
        
        Changing roles in Thailand
      - Traditional lifestyle/role of the of sangha
        
        Including relationship to the Lay Sangha
      - 21st Century
      - Wat Phra Dammakaya
    - - Acts of Devotion
        
        Theravadan
        
        Mahayanan
      - The nature and role of buddha images
      - The importance of making and sharing merit
      - Perspectives of worship
        
        Mahayanan
        
        Theravadan
    - - The nature and purpose of meditation on the eightfold path
      - Modern usage of Buddhist meditation as a form of therapy
        
        Buddhist responses to it
  - - - Encounter with western lifestyles and values with the development of tourism after the 1980s
      - The changing roles of men and women in society outside of religion
      - The rights given to women by secular Thai governments.
    - - The debate leading to the revival of the Theravada order of nuns in the late 1990s
      - Continuing debates about female ordination and the role of women in Theravada Buddhism
        
        Dhammananda
        
        the Sakyadhita organisation
      - Different Buddhist views about:
        
        Celibacy
        
        Homosexuality
        
        Marriage
        
        Transgender issues
  - - - Science challenging the belief in karma and miracles
        
        Buddhist responses to this
      - The Value of Science
        
        Buddha’s attitude to the search for answers to unanswerable questions
        
        the belief that science agrees with some Buddhist teaching with particular reference to quantum physics
        
        The views of Thich Nhat Hanh in reference to Buddhism versus science
        
        The views of the 14th Dalai Lama in reference to Buddhism versus science
      - Different Buddhist responses to ethical issues raised by science
        
        Genetic Engineering
  - - - Materialistic Secular values
        
        Wealth and posessions
      - The preservation of traditional forms of Buddhism
        
        Amarvati
        
        Forest Traditions
      - the emergence of new forms of Buddhism
        
        Triratna
        
        Secular
      - The appeal of some forms of Buddhism as an alternative to other forms of religious expression.
      - Emphasis on the contribution of Buddhism to society
        
        The work of Engaged Buddhism as a liberationist approach in supporting the poor and oppressed.
    - - Stephen Batchelor
      - David Brazier
  - - - the development of Buddhism in Britain
      - diversity within the Buddhist community in Britain
      - freedom of religion as a human right in European law and religious pluralism as a feature of modern secular states
    - - How far Buddhism should be seen as a collection of different traditions with little in common
      - Edict 12 of Ashoka on attitudes to other faiths
      - Buddhist attitudes to religious pluralism with reference both to diversity within Buddhism and diversity between religions
        
        Nichiren buddhism
      - Buddhist responses to issues of freedom of religious expression in society.
- - - - For: PALEY'S analogical argument
      - Against
        
        HUME
    - - For: ANSELM'S argument
      - Against
        
        GAUNILO
        
        KANT
    - - For: Aquinas's 3rd Way
        
        Contingency
        
        Necessity
      - Against:
        
        HUME
        
        RUSSEL
  - - - Narural Evil
      - Moral Evil
    - - Logical
      - Evidential
    - - HICK'S Soul Making Theodicy
        
        Strengths
        
        Weaknesses
      - Free Will Defence
        
        Strengths
        
        Weaknesses
      - GRIFFIN'S Process Theodicy
        
        Strengths
        
        Weaknesses
  - - - Corporeal
      - Imaginative
      - Intellectual
    - - WILLIAM JAMES
      - WALTER STACE
        
        Non-Sensuous
        
        Non-Intellectual
    - - OTTO, appreciation of the wholly other
    - - Challenges of Verifying Religious Experiences
      - The Challenges to Religious Experiences from Science
        
        Religious Responses to them
      - SWINBURNE'S Principles
        
        Credulity
        
        Testimony
  - - - HICK'S Eschatological Verification
        
        Evaluation
        
        Strengths
        
        Weaknesses
      - R.M.HARE'S Bliks
        
        Evaluation
        
        Strengths
        
        Weaknesses
      - WITTGENSTEIN'S Language Games
        
        Evaluation
        
        Strengths
        
        Weaknesses
    - - TILLICH'S View of Symbols
        
        Evaluation
        
        Strengths
        
        Weaknesses
      - AQUINAS'S View of Analogy
        
        Evaluation
        
        Strengths
        
        Weaknesses
      - Via Negativa
        
        Evaluation
        
        Strengths
        
        Weaknesses
  - - - Anti/Real
        
        Realism
        
        Anti-Realism
      - Violation of a Natural Law
    - - HUME
      - WILES
  - - - DESCARTES
    - - Monism
      - Dualism
      - Dual Monism
    - - Physical Continuity
      - Immortality of the Soul
      - Psychological Continuity
- - - - Principle of Double Effect
      - Proportionalism
    - - Issues of Human Life and Death
        
        Embryo Research
        
        Cloning
        
        Designer Babies
        
        Abortion
        
        Voluntary Euthanasia
        
        Assisted Suicide
        
        Capital Punishment
      - Issues of Non-Human Life and Death
        
        Use of animals as food
        
        Intensive Farming
        
        Use of animals in scientific procedures
        
        Cloning
        
        Blood Sports
        
        Animals as a source of organs for transplants
  - - - Divine Command Theory
      - Naturalism
        
        Utilitarianism
      - Non-Natualism
        
        Intuitionism
  - - - Free WIll
      - Understanding right and wrong
    - - Libertarianims
      - Hard Determinism
      - Compatibilism
  - - - Religious
      - Non-Religious
    - - Telling Lies/Breaking Promises
      - Adultery
- - - - Deontotological, with reference to Kant
      - teleological and consequential, with reference to Bentham
      - character based, with reference to virtue ethics.
    - - Human life and death
      - Animal life and death
      - Theft
      - Lying
      - marriage
      - Homosexuality
      - transgender
      - genetic engineering
      - Wealth
      - Tolerance and freedom of religious expression