
His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: The primary concern of Mahayana practitioners is not merely their own liberation, but the enlightenment of all limited beings.
Brief Introduction to the Four Noble Truths by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, 7 October 1981, translated by Alexander Berzin revised and re-edited June 2007.
Introduction – When the great universal teacher Shakyamuni Buddha first spoke about the Dharma in the noble land of India, he taught the four noble truths: true sufferings, true origins or causes of sufferings, true stoppings or cessations of sufferings, and true pathway minds or paths leading to the stoppings of sufferings.