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རིག་པ་དང་ཞབས་སུ་ལྡན་པ། | Glossary of Terms
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རིག་པ་དང་ཞབས་སུ་ལྡན་པ།
- རིགས་པ་དག་ཞབས་སུ་ལྡན་པ།
- rig pa dang zhabs su ldan pa
- rigs pa dag zhabs su ldan pa
- vidyācaraṇasaṃpanna
- vidyācaraṇasampanna
- Term
- perfect in wisdom and conduct
- རིག་པ་དང་ཞབས་སུ་ལྡན་པ།
- rig pa dang zhabs su ldan pa
- vidyācaraṇasaṃpanna
A common description of buddhas. According to some explanations, “wisdom” refers to awakening, and “conduct” to the three trainings (bslab pa gsum) by means of which a buddha attains that awakening; according to others, “wisdom” refers to right view, and “conduct” to the other seven elements of the eightfold path.
- perfect in wisdom and conduct
- རིག་པ་དང་ཞབས་སུ་ལྡན་པ།
- rig pa dang zhabs su ldan pa
- vidyācaraṇasaṃpanna
A common description of buddhas. According to some explanations, “wisdom” refers to awakening, and “conduct” to the three trainings (bslab pa gsum) by means of which a buddha attains that awakening; according to others, “wisdom” refers to right view, and “conduct” to the other seven elements of the eightfold path.
- endowed with knowledge and feet
- རིག་པ་དང་ཞབས་སུ་ལྡན་པ།
- rig pa dang zhabs su ldan pa
- vidyācaraṇasampanna
The Nibandhana explains this as a metaphor of the eye and the feet, which, operating together, allow one to move; knowledge, interpreted as either “right view” or as “the training in wisdom,” is like the eye, while the other seven parts of the noble eightfold path, or the two other trainings in discipline and samādhi, function as the “feet.” This explanation is also found in the sgra sbyor bam po gnyis pa commentary on the Mahāvyutpatti, which further clarifies that zhabs is here simply the honorific term for “foot” (caraṇa ni rkang pa). Thus, although it is not uncommon to translate caraṇa here with “conduct,” this loses the significance of the metaphor.
- endowed with knowledge and virtuous conduct
- རིགས་པ་དག་ཞབས་སུ་ལྡན་པ།
- rigs pa dag zhabs su ldan pa
- vidyācaraṇasampanna