Glossary: F.
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Five Precepts. See: pañca-śīla.
Four Noble Truths, the. These are the basic teachings of Buddhism. By tradition the Buddha preached these at his first sermon. Part of bodhi, “awakening” or “enlightenment”, is the realisation of their full meaning. They are concerned with duḥkha, the flaw that we see in the empirical world often misleadingly translated as “suffering”. In order they state that there is duḥkha, how it arises, that it can be ended, and the way to end it. In order see: duḥkha, samudāya, nirodha and Noble Eightfold Path, the.