A balanced, factual and culturally sensitive examination of Buddhism for Key Stage 3 Religious Studies.

The Seeking Religion series has titles for each of the main world religions. It is a proven reliable and accessible resource for Key Stage 3 Religious Education.

Each title has concise easy-to-understand narrative and a wide range of questions and activities to stimulate discussions in order to learn from and about religion.

The Buddhist Experience helps pupils to:
- gain an understanding about Buddhism: how it originated, its key beliefs and practices and its responses to different issues
- learn from Buddhism, and reflect on their own beliefs and values.

This book is part of a book series called Seeking Religion .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Hodder Education .

This book has the following chapters:

• : 1 What is Buddhism?
• : 2 A man called Siddhartha
• : 3 Siddhartha's request
• : 4 The Enlightened One (Buddha)
• : 5 The Buddha's Teaching (Dharma)
• : 6 The Community (Sangha)
• : 7 Different Kinds of Buddhism
• : 8 Going for Refuge
• : 9 Buddha Images
• : 10 At a Shrine
• : 11 Meditation
• : 12 Festivals
• : 13 Teh Buddhist Way of Life
• : 14 Buddhist Scriptures
• : 15 Women in Buddhism
• : 16 The Wheel of Life
• : 17 The Perfections
• : 18 Living it out