Dukkha

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'''Dukkha''' ([[Pāli]]; [[Sanskrit]]: ''{{IAST|duḥkha}}''; [[Tibetan]] ''sdug bsngal'') is a [[Buddhist]] term commonly translated as "[[suffering]]", "stress", "anxiety", or "dissatisfaction". Dukkha is identified as the first of the [[Four Noble Truths]].

==Alternate translations==
Translations used for dukkha in the context of the four noble truths are:

* A basic unsatisfactoriness pervading all existence (Bhikkhu Bodhi)
* Anguish
* Anxiety (Chogyam Trungpa, ''The Truth of Suffering'', pp. 8–10)
* Affliction (Brazier)
* Dissatisfaction (Pema Chodron, Chogyam Trunpa)
* Discomfort
* Discontent
* Frustration (Dalai Lama, Four Noble Truths, p. 38)
* Misery
* Sorrow
* Stress (Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Jon Kabat-Zin)
* Suffering (Thich Nhat Hanh, Ajahn Succito, Chogyam Trungpa, Rupert Gethin, Dalai Lama, ''et al.'')
* Uneasiness (Chogyam Trungpa)
* Unease (Rupert Gethin, Venerable Punnaji [http://levityisland.com/buddhadust/www.buddhadust.org/sutta/sn/mv/suttas/sn_v.12.2_vp-trans.htm])
* Unhappiness
* Unsatisfactoriness (Rupert Gethin; Dalai Lama, ''Four Noble Truths'', p. 38; Piyadassi Thera, ''The Ancient Path'')

==See also==
* [[Four Noble Truths]]
* [[Nirodha]]
* [[Noble Eightfold Path]]
* [[Samudaya]]
* [[Suffering]]


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