Four noble truths

cattāri ariyasaccāni

Foundations & ethics Core — needs to be understood Stage 2 of 8

The overall model of the teaching: dukkha; its arising (craving); its ceasing (Nibbāna); the practice that leads to its ceasing (the eightfold path). Each truth has its own task: to understand, to abandon, to realise, to develop.

On the path: 2 · The map of liberation — How is the whole path built? The four noble truths, the eightfold path, the three trainings, dependent arising in outline, Nibbāna. → to this stage in the learning path

In the map of the teaching: DN 34 · Groups of four · Seeing directly

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Passages where cattāri ariyasaccāni occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.

Pāli commentaries · Visuddhimaggo (Dutiyo bhāgo) · Pāli

531 . Yasmā panetāni buddhādayo ariyā paṭivijjhanti, tasmā ariyasaccānī ti vuccanti. Yathāha ‘‘cattārimāni, bhikkhave, ariyasaccāni. Katamāni…pe… imāni kho, bhikkhave, cattāri ariyasaccāni. Ariyā imāni paṭivijjhanti, tasmā ariyasaccānīti vuccantī’’ti. Apica ariyassa saccānītipi ariyasaccāni. Yathāha ‘‘sadevake, bhikkhave, loke…pe… manussāya tathāgato ariyo, tasmā ariyasaccānīti vuccantī’’ti (saṃ. ni. 5.1098). Atha vā etesaṃ abhisambuddhattā ariyabhāvasiddhitopi ariyasaccāni.
Tipiṭaka · khpa · Pāli

Idha pana yesaṃ catunnaṃ anubodhappaṭivedhato bhavataṇhāchedo hoti, yasmā tāni cattāri ariyasaccāni adhippetāni. Yasmā vā iminā pariyāyena byākataṃ subyākatameva hoti, tasmā thero cattārī ti paccanubhāsitvā ‘‘ariyasaccānī’’ ti vissajjeti. Tattha cattārī ti gaṇanaparicchedo. Ariyasaccānī ti ariyāni saccāni, avitathāni avisaṃvādakānīti attho. Yathāha – ‘‘Imāni kho, bhikkhave, cattāri ariyasaccāni tathāni avitathāni anaññathāni, tasmā ariyasaccānīti vuccantī’’ti (saṃ. ni. 5.1097). Yasmā vā sadevakena lokena araṇīyato abhigamanīyatoti vuttaṃ hoti, vāyamitabbaṭṭhānasaññite aye vā iriyanato, anaye vā na iriyanato, sattatiṃsabodhipakkhiyaariyadhammasamāyogato vā ariyasammatā …
Āgamas · 中阿含經 · Chinese

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