ཚངས་པའི་གནས། | Glossary of Terms

The four qualities that are said to result in rebirth in the heaven of Brahmā: limitless love, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity. They were practices already prevalent in India before Śākyamuni’s teaching.

The four qualities of loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.

Love, compassion, joy, equanimity.

The four abodes of Brahmā are loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity, also known as the four “immeasurables.” The term is also rendered in this translation as “Brahmā abodes.”

The name of a meditation practice focusing on the cultivation of compassion (karuṇā), love (maitri), empathetic joy (muditā) and equanimity (upekṣā).

The four abodes of Brahmā are love, compassion, joy, and equanimity.

The four brahmaviharas are limitless love, compassion, rejoicing, and impartiality. Meditation on these alone is said to bring rebirth in the Brahmā realms.

The four qualities that are said to result in rebirth in the paradise of Brahmā and were a practice already prevalent before Śākyamuni’s teaching: limitless love, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity.

The four qualities that are said to result in rebirth in the paradise of Brahmā, and were a practice already prevalent before Śākyamuni’s teaching, are limitless love, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity.

See “abodes of Brahmā.”

The four qualities that are said to result in rebirth in the paradise of Brahmā, and were a practice already prevalent before the Buddha Śākyamuni’s teaching, are limitless loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.

Refers to the fourfold practice of love, compassion, joy, and impartiality.

The four qualities that are said to result in rebirth in the paradise of Brahmā: limitless love, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity.

The four qualities of limitless love, compassion, joy, and equanimity.