DHAMMACAKKAPPAVATTANAVAGGA

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Dhammacakkappavattanasutta

SN 56.11

Rolling Forth the Wheel of Dhamma

The famous first discourse, taught at Varanasi to the group of five ascetics. It begins by rejecting the extremes of asceticism and indulgence and recommends the middle way of the eightfold path. Then it defines the four noble...

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Tathāgatasutta

SN 56.12

The Realized Ones

All Realized Ones understand the four noble truths in their twelve aspects.

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Khandhasutta

SN 56.13

Aggregates

The four noble truths are defined, with the five aggregates under the truth of suffering.

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Ajjhattikāyatanasutta

SN 56.14

Interior Sense Fields

The four noble truths are defined, with the six sense fields under the truth of suffering.

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Paṭhamadhāraṇasutta

SN 56.15

Remembering (1st)

The Buddha asks the mendicants how they remember the four noble truths.

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Dutiyadhāraṇasutta

SN 56.16

Remembering (2nd)

The Buddha asks the mendicants how they remember the four noble truths.

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Avijjāsutta

SN 56.17

Ignorance

Ignorance is not knowing the four noble truths.

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Vijjāsutta

SN 56.18

Knowledge

Understanding is knowing the four noble truths.

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Saṅkāsanasutta

SN 56.19

Expressions

Each of the four noble truths has innumerable implications.

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Tathasutta

SN 56.20

Real

Each of the four noble truths is real, not otherwise.

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