The foundational teaching of Buddhism: (1) dukkha (suffering/unsatisfactoriness is pervasive); (2) its origin is craving (tanha); (3) cessation (nirodha) is possible; (4) the Eightfold Path is the way to cessation.
Provides a diagnostic-therapeutic structure (diagnosis, etiology, prognosis, treatment) that frames the entire Buddhist project as a practical response to the human condition of suffering.
No conceptual lineage found.
No recorded contemporaries.
No recorded minds influenced.
No conceptual posterity found.
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