The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (699 page)

that everything is apprehended as suffering. Therefore, the ‘truth’ of suffering is something which has to be discerned or discovered, like the truth of anicca. Hence it figures as a subject of contemplation (
dukkh
nupassan
, cf.
VIPASSAN
) in Buddhist meditational practice.

 
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Duleep Singh
(son of Rañjit Si
gh)
:

see
RAÑJ
T SINGH
.

 
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(1898–1986).
French scholar of Indo-European thought and structure. Much influenced by
Durkheim
and Mauss, he made wide-ranging comparative studies, seeking to demonstrate the underlying importance of tripartite structures and functions (for an example see
P
AVAS
), and also of paired relations between heavenly beings and earthly counterparts. Although accused of imposing patterns and ‘shaving the corners’, his views were influential for a time in the study of religion.

 
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