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ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས། | Glossary of Terms
ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
tshul khrims
śīla
- Term
Morally virtuous or disciplined conduct and the abandonment of morally undisciplined conduct of body, speech, and mind. In a general sense, moral discipline is the cause for rebirth in higher, more favorable states, but it is also foundational to Buddhist practice as one of the three trainings (triśikṣā) and one of the six perfections of a bodhisattva. Often rendered as “ethics,” “discipline,” and “morality.”
- Discipline
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
- 持戒
Controlled behavior in accordance with an ethical code of conduct.
- Discipline
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
Morally virtuous or disciplined conduct and the abandonment of morally undisciplined conduct of body, speech, and mind. One of the six perfections of the bodhisattva. Also rendered here as “ethical rules” and “ethical discipline.” See also Alexander Csoma de Kőrös Translation Group, trans., The Dedication Fulfilling All Aspirations (Toh 285), note 6.
- Discipline
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
- Discipline
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
- Discipline
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
The second of the six perfections.
- Discipline
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
The second of the six perfections.
- Discipline
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
One of the six perfections.
- Discipline
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
One of the six or ten perfections.
- Discipline
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
The second of the six perfections.
- Discipline
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
Controlled behavior in accordance with an ethical code of conduct.
- Discipline
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
Upholding ethical conduct of body, speech, and mind. Second of the six or ten perfections.
- Discipline
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
A mind set on abandoning the undisciplined conduct of body, speech, and mind.
- Discipline
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
- Morality
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
- Morality
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
Morally virtuous or disciplined conduct and the abandonment of morally undisciplined conduct of body, speech, and mind. One of the six perfections of the bodhisattva. Also often rendered as “ethics,” “discipline,” and so on.
- Morality
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
One of the six perfections and the five perfections.
- Morality
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
- Ethical discipline
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
The second of the six perfections (Skt. pāramitā).
- Ethical discipline
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
Morally virtuous or disciplined conduct and the abandonment of morally undisciplined conduct of body, speech, and mind. One of the six perfections of the bodhisattva.
- Good conduct
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
The second of the six perfections. Morally virtuous or disciplined conduct and the abandonment of morally undisciplined conduct of body, speech, and mind. Also commonly called discipline and ethical conduct.
- Good conduct
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
The second of the six perfections. Morally virtuous or disciplined conduct and the abandonment of morally undisciplined conduct of body, speech, and mind. Also commonly called discipline and ethical conduct.
- Moral discipline
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
Morally virtuous or disciplined conduct and the abandonment of morally undisciplined conduct of body, speech, and mind. In a general sense, moral discipline is the cause for rebirth in higher, more favorable states, but it is also foundational to Buddhist practice as one of the three trainings (triśikṣā) and one of the six perfections of a bodhisattva.
- Moral discipline
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
Morally virtuous or disciplined conduct and the abandonment of morally undisciplined conduct of body, speech, and mind. The term is often used in reference to following precepts or rules according to one’s ordination or vows. It is foundational to Buddhist practice as one of the three trainings (triśikṣā). In the Mahāyāna, it is the second of the six perfections (ṣaṭpāramitā).
- Ethical conduct
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- ཚུལ།
- tshul khrims
- tshul
- śīla
- Ethics
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla
Morally virtuous or disciplined conduct and the abandonment of morally undisciplined conduct of body, speech, and mind. One of the six perfections of the bodhisattva. Also rendered here as “ethical rules” and “ethical discipline.” See also UT22084-068-019-17.
- Moral conduct
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- tshul khrims
- śīla