Four Noble Truths Dharma Altar Card

The Four Noble Truths and The Noble Eightfold Path Dharma Altar Card offers a lucid, highly accurate rendition of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths; the essential foundation of all dharma practice, a complete and profound dharma teaching transmission on a single card, easily accessible for study, inspiration, and practice.

The Four Noble Truths and The Noble Eightfold Path Dharma Altar Card is 7"x10" in size and is protected with thick optical-quality lamination (10ml) for long life. The Four Noble Truths are printed over an exquisite thangka painting of Buddha Shakyamuni. The Noble Eightfold Path is presented on the back of the card.

This is one of the world's greatest and most profound teachings. Here Shakyamuni Buddha offers us the truth of suffering and the embracing of suffering with awareness. He teaches us about the causes of suffering and offers a deep understanding of these causes. The Buddha also offers us the grand possibility of bringing dissatisfaction and suffering to a welcome end and clearly describes The Noble Eightfold Path we must follow to accomplish this liberation from suffering and reach enlightenment (Nirvana).

The Four Noble Truths:
The First Noble Truth / Dukkha: The Truth of Dissatisfaction and Suffering. The Second Noble Truth / Samudaya: The Cause of Dissatisfaction and Suffering. The Third Noble Truth / Nirodha: The Cessation of Dissatisfaction and Suffering. The Fourth Noble Truth / Magga: The Path Leading to the Cessation of Dissatisfaction and Suffering.

The Noble Eightfold Path:
Right Understanding (or Right View), Right Thought (or Right Intention), Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness (or Right Attention) and Right Concentration.

Your purchase greatly assists our Naljor Prison Dharma Service in bringing the "seeds of liberation" to those behind prison walls.