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The Four Noble Truths
SN 56.11, Rolling Forth the Wheel of Dhamma, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato
Mapped by similarity in the English wording. Each faint dot is a sutta, placed by how alike its English wording is.
In the sutta's own order
- 1
Suffering
“not getting what you wish for is suffering”
- 2
Its origin
“the craving that leads to future lives”
- 3
Its cessation
“letting it go, releasing it”
- 4
The path
“simply this noble eightfold path”
From sn56.11:4.1–4.10, Bhikkhu Sujato's translation. Read the whole sutta
What the map shows, and what it doesn't
- Mapped by similarity in the English wording.
- Translations with more similar wording tend to appear nearer.
- The faint stars are the suttas of the four main collections (DN, MN, SN, AN), one each. The four gold stars are the four definition passages, placed on the same map by the same measure of wording.
- A map of the suttas' wording, not of the Dhamma.
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A lesson on the Four Noble Truths. Where it draws on a passage, it cites it so you can read it yourself.