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བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ། | Glossary of Terms
བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ།
bsdu ba’i dngos po
saṃgrahavastu
- Term
- Means of attracting disciples
- བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ།
- bsdu ba’i dngos po
- saṃgrahavastu
These are traditionally listed as four: generosity, kind talk, meaningful actions, and practicing what one preaches.
- Means of attracting disciples
- བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ།
- bsdu ba’i dngos po
- saṃgrahavastu
Generosity, kind talk, meaningful actions, and practicing what one preaches.
- Means of attracting disciples
- བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ།
- bsdu ba’i dngos po
- saṃgrahavastu
Generosity, kind talk, meaningful actions, and practicing what one preaches.
- Means of attraction
- བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ།
- bsdu ba’i dngos po
- saṃgrahavastu
This is generally given as a list of four qualities or methods for attracting students: generosity, kind talk, meaningful actions, and practicing what one preaches.
- Means of attraction
- བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ།
- bsdu ba’i dngos po
- saṃgrahavastu
Generosity, loving speech, acting for the good, and having a common aim for oneself and others.
- Acts of attracting beings
- བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ།
- bsdu ba’i dngos po
- saṃgrahavastu
The means of winning over beings; traditionally there are four of them—generosity, kind talk, meaningful action, and impartiality.
- Means of unification
- བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ།
- bsdu ba’i dngos po
- saṃgrahavastu
Four ways in which a bodhisattva forms a group of people united by the common aim of practicing the Dharma: giving (dāna); pleasant speech (priyavaditā); accomplishment of the aims (of others) by teaching Dharma (arthacaryā); and consistency of behavior with the teaching (samānārthatā).
- Method of attraction
- བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ།
- bsdu ba’i dngos po
- saṃgrahavastu
The four methods of attracting disciples are generosity (Tib. sbyin pa, Skt. dāna), pleasant speech (Tib. snyan par smra ba, Skt. priyavādita), helpfulness (Tib. don spyod pa, Skt. arthacaryā), and acting in a way that accords with the teachings (Tib. don ’thun pa, Skt. samānārthatā).
- Methods of gathering pupils
- བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ།
- ཡོངས་སུ་བསྡུ་བའི་ཚུལ།
- bsdu ba’i dngos po
- yongs su bsdu ba’i tshul
- saṃgrahavastu
The four methods of attracting pupils are generosity, pleasant speech, beneficial conduct, and conduct that accords with the wishes of pupils.
- Modes of attraction
- བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ།
- bsdu ba’i dngos po
- saṃgrahavastu
The four modes for attracting people to the Dharma: giving (dāna); pleasant speech (priyavaditā); accomplishment of the aims (of others) by teaching Dharma (arthacaryā); and consistency of behavior with the teaching (samānārthatā).