Eightfold Path

American  

noun

Buddhism.

1. the eight pursuits of one seeking enlightenment, comprising right understanding, motives, speech, action, means of livelihood, effort, intellectual activity, and contemplation.

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Example Sentences

How is the Eightfold Path in the Buddhist excerpt similar to or different from the call for action in the Hindu excerpt?

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

He thanked his support groups and said that embracing the Buddhist ideologies of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path has strengthened his Catholic faith.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2021

He called his method the “eightfold way” after the Buddhist Eightfold Path to enlightenment.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2019

Either way, this introduction to the Buddha's Eightfold Path is often clever and occasionally exasperating.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2015

Freedom from the wheel of re-birth is gained by the Eightfold Path of right beliefs and right acts.

From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Sellars, Roy Wood