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Finding these teachings to be insufficient to attain hi

Buddha statue depicting Parinirvana(Mahaparinirvana Temple, Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India)

As a fully enlightened Buddha (Skt. samyaksabud

Buddha's teachings were propagated by his followe
Division Eightfold factor Sanskrit, Pali Description

The problem of life: endless rebirth the belief that

there is an
afterlife and not
everything ends
with death, that
Buddha taught

Main article: Glossary of Buddhism

1. Right view
samyag di,
and followed a
successful path to
nirvana;[169] accor
ding to Peter
Harvey, the right
samm ditthi view is held in

Part of a series on Four Noble Truths - dukkha and its ending Buddhism as a
belief in the
Buddhist
principles
of karma and rebi
rth, and the

Buddhism Main articles: Dukkha and Four Noble Truths

Wisdom
(Sanskrit: praj,
Pli: pa)
importance of
the Four Noble
Truths and the
True Realities.[172]
giving up home
and adopting the
life of a religious
mendicant in
The Buddha teaching the Four Noble Truths. Sanskrit manuscript. Nalanda, Bihar, India.
order to follow
the path;[169] this
concept, states
samyag Harvey, aims at

The Four Truths express the basic orientation of Bu

History[show]
2. Right intention sakalpa, peaceful
samm sakappa renunciation, into
an environment
of non-sensuality,
non-ill-will (to
lovingkindness),

TheDharma
truth of dukkha is the basic insight that life in th
away from cruelty
(to
compassion).[172]
no lying, no rude
speech, no telling

In Concepts
Buddhism, dukkha is one of the three marks of ex
one person what
samyag vc, another says
3. Right speech
samm vca about him,
speaking that
which leads to
salvation;[169]

Dukkha[show]arises when we crave (Pali: tanha) and cling no killing or

injuring, no
taking what is not
given; no sexual
acts in monastic
pursuit,[169] for lay

Dukkha
Buddhist ceases, or can be confined, when craving
texts[show] 4. Right action
samyag karman,
samm
kammanta
Buddhists no
sensual
misconduct such
as sexual
involvement with
[78]

someone

By following the Buddhist path to moksha, liberation

Practices[show]
Moral virtues[170]
(Sanskrit: la,
Pli: sla)
married, or with
an unmarried
woman protected
by her parents or
relatives.[173][174][1
75]

The cycle of rebirth

Nirva[show]
For monks, beg to
feed, only
possessing what
is essential to
sustain
life.[176] For lay
Buddhists, the

Traditions[show]
Traditional 5. Right samyag jvana,
canonical texts

Tibetan BuddhistThangka depicting the Wheel of Lifewith its six realms

state right
livelihood as
abstaining from

Sasra
livelihood samm jva
wrong livelihood,
explained as not

Buddhism by country[show] becoming a

Main article: Sasra (Buddhism)

source or means
of suffering to
sentient beings
by cheating them,
or harming or

Outline
killing them in

Sasra means "wandering" or "world", with the co

any way.[177][178]
guard against
sensual thoughts;

Buddhism portal
this concept,
states Harvey,
samyag vyyma,
6. Right effort aims at
samm vyma
preventing

The theory of rebirths, and realms in which these re unwholesome

states that disrupt
meditation.[179]

v never be absent
minded,

The later Buddhist texts assert that rebirth can occu

conscious of what
one is doing; this,

t
states Harvey,
encourages
mindfulness
Meditation[170] about

Rebirth
(Sanskrit and impermanence of

e
7. Right samyag smti,
Pli: samdhi) the body, feelings
mindfulness samm sati
and mind, as well
as to experience
the five skandhas,
the five

Gautama's cremation site, Ramabhar Stupa in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India

hindrances, the
four True
Realities and
seven factors of

Main article: Rebirth (Buddhism)

8. Right samyag samdhi,
awakening.[179]
Correct
meditation or
concentration
(dhyana),
concentration samm samdhi

Rebirth refers to a process whereby beings go throu

explained as the
four
jhnas.[169][180]