苦集灭道
Traditional form:
苦集滅道
Pinyin (reading):
kǔjímièdào
Definitions:
- the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering 苦 (kǔ), the cause of suffering is desire 集 (jí), emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅／灭 (miè), the way 道 (dào) to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道 (bāzhèngdào)
- also called 四諦／四谛 (sìdì)
Characters:
- 苦 - bitter; hardship, suffering
- 集 - to gather, to collect; set, collection
- 灭 - to extinguish; to wipe out
- 道 - method, way; path, road
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