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@@ -38988,3 +38988,29 @@ clearly defined object, like Buddha or Jesus Christ or a bodhisattva, but was
 simply directed to all great beings who have infinite compassion towards all
 sentient beings.
   -- H.H. the Dalai Lama
+~
+The Buddhist teaching is superior in four ways: view, meditation, behavior,
+and fruit.
+
+1.  The "four seals" that distinguish the [Buddhist] view are as follows: all
+composed phenomena are impermanent, all contaminated things are miserable, all
+phenomena are selfless, and nirvana is peace.
+
+2.  Buddhist meditation serves as an antidote to all cyclic existence within
+the three realms.
+
+3.  Buddhist behavior is free from the two extremes, having abandoned both the
+extreme of overindulgence of desire, which is a case of being desirous and
+wanting good and great quantities of food and clothing, and the extreme of
+being too tired and worn out in body and mind.
+
+4.  The fruits are the true cessations, which are abandonments such that the
+obstruction that is removed does not arise again [and which comes about]
+through analyzing individually the nonexistence of the referent object of the
+conception of self.
+
+These four [view, meditation, behavior, and fruit] are the distinguishing
+features of Buddhist doctrine.
+  -- Jamyang Shayba, from "Buddhist Philosophy: Losang Gonchok’s Short
+     Commentary to Jamyang Shayba's Root Text on Tenets", by Daniel Cozort
+     and Craig Preston, page 88.