ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་དྲུག | Glossary of Terms

The practice of the bodhisattva, which consists of giving, morality, patience, effort, concentration, and wisdom.

The practice of the six perfections, comprising generosity, ethical discipline, tolerance, perseverance, meditative concentration, and wisdom or discriminative awareness, is the foundation of the entire bodhisattva’s way of life. These six are known as “perfections” when they are motivated by an altruistic intention to attain full enlightenment for the sake of all beings, when they are undertaken within a sixfold combination of all the perfections, and when they are performed with an awareness of the emptiness of the agent, the object, and their interaction. Some of the more detailed discussions of different aspects of the six perfections in this text include UT22084-026-001-2237-UT22084-026-001-2256, UT22084-026-001-2623-UT22084-026-001-2632, UT22084-026-001-2912-UT22084-026-001-2916, UT22084-026-001-3072-UT22084-026-001-3074, UT22084-026-001-4541-UT22084-026-001-4573, UT22084-026-001-4941-UT22084-026-001-5022, and UT22084-026-001-6062-UT22084-026-001-6090.

The six practices or qualities that a follower of the Great Vehicle perfects in order to transcend cyclic existence and reach the full awakening of a buddha. They are giving, morality, patience, perseverance or effort, concentration, and wisdom. See also “perfection.”

The trainings of the bodhisattva path: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and insight.

The practice of the bodhisatva, which consists of generosity (dāna), morality (śīla), patient acceptance (kṣānti), vigor (vīrya), meditation (dhyāna), and wisdom (prajñā).

The six perfections are giving (Skt. dāna), ethical discipline (Skt. śīla), patience or acceptance (Skt. kṣānti), effort (Skt. vīrya), meditative concentration (Skt. dhyāna), and wisdom (Skt. prajñā).

The trainings of the bodhisattva path: generosity (dāna, byin pa), discipline (śīla, tshul khrims), patience or acceptance (kṣānti, bzod pa), diligence or effort (vīrya, brtson ’grus), meditative concentration (dhyāna, bsam gtan), and insight (prajñā, shes rab).

The trainings of the bodhisattva path: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and knowledge, or wisdom.

Generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom.

The trainings of the bodhisattva path: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom.

Generosity (Skt. dāna; Tib. byin pa), discipline (Skt. śīla; Tib. tshul khrims), patience (Skt. kṣānti; Tib. bzod pa), diligence (Skt. vīrya; Tib. brtson ’grus), meditative concentration (Skt. dhyāna; Tib. bsam gtan), and insight (Skt. prajñā; Tib. shes rab).

The six practices or qualities that a follower of the Great Vehicle perfects in order to transcend cyclic existence. They are generosity (dāna, byin pa), discipline (śīla, tshul khrims), patience or acceptance (kṣānti, bzod pa), diligence (vīrya, brtson ’grus), meditative concentration (dhyāna, bsam gtan), and insight (prajñā, shes rab).

Practices of the bodhisattva path: generosity (Tib. sbyin pa; Skt. dāna), discipline (Tib. tshul khrims; Skt. śīla), patience (Tib. bzod pa; Skt. kṣānti), diligence (Tib. brtson ’grus; Skt. vīrya), concentration (Tib. bsam gtan; Skt. dhyāna), and wisdom (Tib. shes rab; Skt. prajñā).

The six practices or qualities that a follower of the Great Vehicle perfects in order to become a buddha. They are generosity (dāna, byin pa), discipline (śīla, tshul khrims), patience or acceptance (kṣānti, bzod pa), diligence (vīrya, brtson ’grus), meditative concentration (dhyāna, bsam gtan), and insight (prajñā, shes rab).

The trainings of the bodhisattva path: generosity (dāna, byin pa), discipline (śīla, tshul khrims), patience or acceptance (kṣānti, bzod pa), diligence or effort (vīrya, brtson ’grus), meditative concentration (dhyāna, bsam gtan), and insight (prajñā, shes rab).

Generosity, morality, patient acceptance, vigor, meditation, and insight.

The trainings of the bodhisattva path: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and insight.

The trainings of the bodhisattva path: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and insight.

The trainings of the bodhisattva path: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom.

The trainings of the bodhisattva path: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and knowledge.

The trainings of the bodhisattva path: generosity (dāna, byin pa), discipline (śīla, tshul khrims), patience or acceptance (kṣānti, bzod pa), diligence or effort (vīrya, brtson ’grus), meditation (dhyāna, bsam gtan), and insight (prajñā, shes rab).

The trainings of the bodhisattva path: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and insight.

A bodhisattva’s practices of giving, ethical discipline, forbearance, perseverence, meditative concentration, and wisdom. To qualify as perfections, those practices must be motivated by bodhicitta‍—the mind of enlightenment‍—and embraced with an understanding of emptiness.

The six practices or qualities that a bodhisattva perfects and by which a bodhisattva transcends cyclic existence. A bodhisattva practices these perfections motivated by bodhicitta, the intention to attain full enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings, and with an awareness of the ultimate reality of all phenomena. These six perfections are generosity, ethics, endurance, diligence, meditative absorption, and wisdom.

The six practices of the bodhisattva path: generosity (Tib. sbyin pa; Skt. dāna), discipline (Tib. tshul khrims; Skt. śīla), patience (Tib. bzod pa; Skt. kṣānti), diligence (Tib. brtson ’grus; Skt. vīrya), concentration (Tib. bsam gtan; Skt. dhyāna), and insight (Tib. shes rab; Skt. prajñā).

The six perfections of the bodhisattvas: giving (Skt. dāna), morality (Skt. śīla), patience or forbearance (Skt. kṣānti), effort (Skt. vīrya), concentration (Skt. dhyāna), and wisdom (Skt. prajñā). The Mahāyāna also offers a list of ten perfections which, however, are different from the ten perfections of the bodhisattva in the Pāli tradition. (See also UT22084-072-039-242.)

The six are generosity, morality, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom.

The six perfections are generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and discernment.

The perfections of generosity, morality, diligence, forbearance, meditative concentration, and wisdom.

The six practices or qualities that a follower of the Great Vehicle perfects in order to transcend cyclic existence and reach the full awakening of a buddha. They are giving, morality, patience, perseverance or effort, concentration, and wisdom. See also “perfection.”

The six qualities that are to be perfected on the Mahāyāna path: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and insight.