"Pali Text Society Dictionary". Archived from the original on 11 December 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
Keown, Damien; Prebish, Charles S., eds. (2013). Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Routledge. p. 25. ISBN978-1-136-98588-1., Quote: "(...)The Buddhism upon which he settled and about which he wrote in The Buddha and His Dhamma was, in many respects, unlike any form of Buddhism that had hitherto arisen within the tradition. Gone, for instance, were the doctrines of karma and rebirth, the traditional emphasis on renunciation of the world, the practice of meditation, and the experience of enlightenment. Gone too were any teachings that implied the existence of a trans-empirical realm (...). Most jarring, perhaps, especially among more traditional Buddhists, was the absence of the Four Noble Truths, which Ambedkar regarded as the invention of wrong-headed monks".
britannica.com
[a] Four Noble Truths: BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Quote: "Although the term Four Noble Truths is well known in English, it is a misleading translation of the Pali term Chattari-ariya-saccani (Sanskrit: Chatvari-arya-satyani), because noble (Pali: ariya; Sanskrit: arya) refers not to the truths themselves but to those who recognize and understand them. A more accurate rendering, therefore, might be "four truths for the [spiritually] noble" [...]"; [b] Arhat (Buddhism), Encyclopædia Britannica
Four Noble Truths: BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Quote: "The first truth, suffering (Pali: dukkha; Sanskrit: duhkha), is characteristic of existence in the realm of rebirth, called samsara (lit.'wandering')."
Four Noble Truths: BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Quote: "The second truth is the origin (Pali and Sanskrit: samudaya) or cause of suffering, which the Buddha associated with craving or attachment in his first sermon."
Hirakawa 1990, p. 28. Hirakawa, Akira (1990), A History of Indian Buddhism. From Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana, University of Hawai'i Press, hdl:10125/23030
