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ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ། | Glossary of Terms
ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
pha rol tu phyin pa
pāramitā
- Term
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
This term is used to refer to the main trainings of a bodhisattva. Because these trainings, when brought to perfection, lead one to transcend saṃsāra and reach the full awakening of a buddha, they receive the Sanskrit name pāramitā, meaning “perfection” or “gone to the farther shore.” They are listed as either six or ten.
See “six perfections” and “ten perfections.”
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
A set of practices to be completely mastered (until one reaches their “other shore”) for those on the bodhisattva path. They are listed as either six or ten.
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
- 彼岸/波羅蜜
The term is used to define the actions of a bodhisattva. Because these actions, when brought to perfection, lead one to transcend saṃsāra and reach full awakening, they receive the Sanskrit name pāramitā, meaning “gone across to the other side.”
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
To have transcended or crossed to the other side; typically refers to the practices of the bodhisattvas, which are embraced with knowledge.
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
A set of practices to be completely mastered (until one reaches their “other shore”) for those on the bodhisattva path. They are listed as either six or ten.
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
Most of the time this term refers to any of the six perfections—generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and insight.
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
Typically refers to the practices of the bodhisattvas, which are embraced with knowledge. The six perfections are generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom.
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
The trainings of the bodhisattvas, typically understood as the six trainings in generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and knowledge.
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
This term is used to refer to the main trainings of a bodhisattva. Because these trainings, when brought to perfection, lead one to transcend saṃsāra and reach the full awakening of a buddha, they receive the Sanskrit name pāramitā, meaning “perfection” or “gone to the farther shore.” Most commonly listed as six: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and insight. They are also often listed as ten by adding: skillful means, prayer, strength, and knowledge.
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
This term is used to refer to the main trainings of a bodhisattva. Because these trainings, when brought to perfection, lead one to transcend saṃsāra and reach the full awakening of a buddha, they receive the Sanskrit name pāramitā, meaning “perfection” or “gone to the farther shore.” Most commonly listed as six: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and insight.
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
To have transcended or crossed to the other side; typically refers to one or more of the six practices of bodhisattvas: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, meditative concentration, and wisdom.
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- ཕ་རོལ་ཕྱིན།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pha rol phyin
- pāramitā
See “six perfections.”
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
Literally “to have crossed over” or “transcended”; typically this refers to the specific practices of the bodhisattva that are motivated by bodhicitta and embraced by wisdom.
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
The six or more perfections, starting from generosity (dāna), constitute the conduct of a bodhisattva.
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
The six perfections of generosity, conduct, patience, diligence, meditation, and wisdom.
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
The six perfections of generosity, conduct, patience, diligence, meditation, and wisdom.
- Perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
This term is used to refer to the main trainings of a bodhisattva. Because these trainings, when brought to perfection, lead one to transcend saṃsāra and reach the full awakening of a buddha, they receive the Sanskrit name pāramitā, meaning “perfection” or “gone to the farther shore.” They are listed as either six or ten. For an explanation of the term given in this text, see UT23703-093-001-20637.
See “six perfections.”
- Perfections
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
The six perfections of generosity, conduct, patience, diligence, dhyāna, and wisdom.
- Perfections
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
The trainings of the bodhisattva path. The Perfection of Wisdom sūtras, which were composed earlier than The Ten Bhūmis, teach just six perfections: generosity, correct conduct, patience, diligence, meditation, and wisdom. The Ten Bhūmis, however, in accord with A Multitude of Buddhas’ emphasis on groups of ten, and in correlation with the ten bhūmis, contains the first appearance in Mahāyāna texts of the ten perfections, adding the four perfections of skillful method, prayer, strength, and knowledge.
- Perfections
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
The trainings of the bodhisattva path: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and knowledge.
- Perfections
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
The trainings of the bodhisattva path. The five perfections are generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, and concentration. When listed as six, insight is included.
- Perfections
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
The trainings of the bodhisattva path: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and insight.
- Perfections
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
Also translated as “transcendences.” The term is used to define the actions of a bodhisattva. The six perfections are: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration and wisdom.
- Perfections
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
See “six perfections.”
- Perfections
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
- 波羅蜜
Generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, meditative concentration, and insight.
- Perfections
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
The trainings of the bodhisattva path: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and insight.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Perfections
- ཕ་རོལ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol phyin pa
- pāramitā
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Perfections
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
- Perfections
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
The trainings of the bodhisattva path. Most commonly listed as six: generosity, moral conduct, patience, diligence, concentration, and insight. Sometimes, such as in this text, an additional four are added: method, aspiration, strength, and wisdom.
- Transcendent perfection
- ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- pha rol tu phyin pa
- pāramitā
See “six transcendent perfections.”