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Live with care — for yourself, for others, for what holds you.
Twelve traditions, in their own words.

An atlas of twelve wisdom traditions: where they converge, where they disagree, and what each preserves in its own words.

Tensions held, not smoothed. The encounter of commitments — not relativism.

179 principles · 26 shared themes · 13 real disagreements

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Twelve

Traditions

Read one in its own words.

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26 themes · 13 differences

Map

Where they agree, and where they don't.

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17 concerns · 41 jewels

Compass

Seventeen things they all care about.

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"Hatred ceases not by hatred, but by love — an old rule."

— Dhammapada 5

Twelve Traditions