1. The Four Noble Truths

2. An ethics of compassion (practicing compassion is good for oneself -- is prudential -- as well as good for others)

3. Bodhisattva ideal (Northern Buddhism only)

4. No-self (related to the Second Noble Truth)

5. Momentariness (related to First Noble Truth)

6. Karma and rebirth

7. Interdependent origination (related, in Northern Buddhism, to the Bodhisattva teaching)

8. Anti-intellectualism

9. A phenomenalist or idealist metaphysics (in tension with #8?)