84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་བཅུ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་བཅུ་པོ།

  • ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་བཅུ།
  • pha rol tu phyin pa bcu
  • pha rol tu phyin pa bcu po
  • daśapāramitā
  • Term
Publications: 5
Translation by Gareth Sparham
  • ten perfections
  • ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་བཅུ།
  • pha rol tu phyin pa bcu
  • daśapāramitā
Definition in this text:

This comprises the most common six perfections to which are added the four perfections of skillful means, prayer, power, and knowledge.

Translation by Joshua Capitanio
  • ten perfections
  • ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་བཅུ།
  • ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་བཅུ་པོ།
  • pha rol tu phyin pa bcu
  • pha rol tu phyin pa bcu po
  • daśapāramitā
Definition in this text:

The six perfections of generosity, discipline, patience, effort, meditative absorption, and wisdom; plus an additional four: skillful means, prayer, strength, and gnosis.

Translation by Wiesiek Mical · Anna Zilman · Andreas Doctor · Adam Krug
  • ten perfections
  • ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་བཅུ།
  • pha rol tu phyin pa bcu
  • daśapāramitā
Definition in this text:

The six perfections plus an additional four.

Translation by Roger Espel Llima · Alex Yiannopoulos · Lowell Cook · Ryan Conlon
  • ten perfections
  • ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་བཅུ།
  • pha rol tu phyin pa bcu
  • daśapāramitā
Definition in this text:

A set of practices to be mastered by those on the bodhisattva path: (1) generosity, (2) discipline, (3) patience, (4) diligence, (5) meditative concentration, (6) wisdom, (7) skillful means, (8) strength, (9) aspirations, and (10) knowledge.

Translation by Gareth Sparham
  • ten perfections
  • ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་བཅུ།
  • pha rol tu phyin pa bcu
  • daśapāramitā
Definition in this text:

This comprises the most common six perfections to which are added the four perfections of skillful means, prayer, power, and knowledge.