ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྦྱིན་པ། | Glossary of Terms
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ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྦྱིན་པ།
- chos kyi sbyin pa
- dharmadāna
- Term
- gift of Dharma
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྦྱིན་པ།
- chos kyi sbyin pa
- dharmadāna
One of the three modes of giving recorded in Buddhist literature, this refers to spreading the Dharma through teaching, recitation, copying of texts, and so forth. The other two consist of the gift of material goods (āmiṣadāna) and the gift of fearlessness (abhayadāna).