Four Noble Truths
Americanplural noun
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Buddhism explores the depths of human suffering, desire, envy, decadence, and death, offering adherents a way out of an eternal cycle of misery if they adopt the Four Noble Truths leading to the Eightfold Path.
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
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 • Aug. 23, 2019
In Buddhist philosophy one of the Four Noble Truths is the cessation of the sense of suffering.
From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2012
The Four Noble Truths are:—Ill, the cause of Ill, the ceasing of Ill, the Path.
From The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada by Woodward, Frank Lee
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