Dhammacakkappavattanasutta
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 truths and analyzes them in twelve aspects. It ends with Venerable Kondañña becoming the first person apart from the Buddha to realize the Dhamma.
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Tathāgatasutta
The Realized Ones
All Realized Ones understand the four noble truths in their twelve aspects.
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Khandhasutta
Aggregates
The four noble truths are defined, with the five aggregates under the truth of suffering.
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Ajjhattikāyatanasutta
Interior Sense Fields
The four noble truths are defined, with the six sense fields under the truth of suffering.
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Paṭhamadhāraṇasutta
Remembering (1st)
The Buddha asks the mendicants how they remember the four noble truths.
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Dutiyadhāraṇasutta
Remembering (2nd)
The Buddha asks the mendicants how they remember the four noble truths.
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Avijjāsutta
Ignorance
Ignorance is not knowing the four noble truths.
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Vijjāsutta
Knowledge
Understanding is knowing the four noble truths.
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Saṅkāsanasutta
Expressions
Each of the four noble truths has innumerable implications.
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Tathasutta
Real
Each of the four noble truths is real, not otherwise.