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==== Theravada ==== Right View can be further subdivided, states translator Bhikkhu Bodhi, into mundane right view and superior or supramundane right view:<ref name="BBodhi_NEP">{{cite web |url=http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/waytoend.html#ch2 |title=The Noble Eightfold Path: The Way to the End of Suffering |access-date=10 July 2010 |publisher=Access to Insight |last=Bhikkhu Bodhi |archive-date=28 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828222920/http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/waytoend.html#ch2 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Sfn|Fuller|2005|p=56}} # Mundane right view, knowledge of the fruits of good behavior (''karma''). Having this type of view will bring merit and will support the favourable rebirth of the sentient being in the realm of [[Samsara (Buddhism)|samsara]]. # Supramundane (world-transcending) right view, the understanding of the Four Noble Truths, leading to awakening and liberation from rebirths and associated [[dukkha]] in the realms of samsara.<ref name="BBodhi_NEP"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Bhikkhu Bodhi|title=In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BFiGGao0GWoC|year=2005|publisher=Wisdom Publications|isbn=978-0-86171-996-9|pages=147, 446 with note 9}}</ref>{{Sfn|Harvey|2013|pp=83β84}} According to Bhikkhu Bodhi, this kind of right view comes at the end of the path, not at the beginning.<ref name="BBodhi_NEP"/> According to Theravada Buddhism, mundane right view is a teaching that is suitable for lay followers, while supramundane right view, which requires a deeper understanding, is suitable for monastics.{{refn|group=note|name="graduated talk"}} Mundane and supramundane right view involve accepting the following doctrines of Buddhism:{{sfn|Richard Gombrich|2009|pp=27β28, 103β09}}{{Sfn|Keown|2000|pp=59, 96β97}} # [[Karma in Buddhism|Karma]]: Every action of body, speech, and mind has [[karma|karmic]] results, and influences the kind of future rebirths and realms a being enters into. # [[Three marks of existence]]: everything, whether physical or mental, is impermanent (''anicca''), a source of suffering (''dukkha''), and lacks a self (''anatta''). # The [[Four Noble Truths]] are a means to gaining insights and ending ''dukkha''.
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