【sì dì】

  1. the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), covered by the acronym 【kǔ jí miè dào】: all life is suffering 【kǔ】, the cause of suffering is desire 【jí】, emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 【miè】, the way 【dào】 to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 【bā zhèng dào】