Four Noble Truths

American  

plural noun

1. the doctrines of Buddha: all life is suffering, the cause of suffering is ignorant desire, this desire can be destroyed, the means to this is the Eightfold Path.

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Example Sentences

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

The imposing “Gateways” incorporates Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths, while the smaller “Dancers” features poetry by Rumi, the 13th-century Islamic Sufi mystic.

From Washington Post

At a deer park once called Isipatana, now Sarnath, a 35-year-old Gautama Buddha, hardly older than Christ when he climbed the hill of Calvary, revealed the eightfold path to liberation from suffering, his four noble truths and the doctrine of the impermanence of everything, including the Self.

From New York Times

In the synopsis of the plot that Sellars wrote for the program book, he refers to the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism.

From Los Angeles Times

Buddhism, which came out of the same ancient Indian religious culture as Hinduism, centers on its four Noble Truths, which articulate, among other things, that all suffering comes from craving.

From New York Times