84000 Glossary of Terms
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བྱམས་པ་ཆེན་པོ། | Glossary of Terms
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བྱམས་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
- byams pa chen po
- mahāmaitrī
- Term
Publications: 2
Translation by Robert A. F. Thurman
- great love
- བྱམས་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
- byams pa chen po
- mahāmaitrī
In an effort to maintain distinctions between Buddhism and Christianity, translators have used all sorts of euphemisms for this basic term. Granted, it is not the everyday “love” that means “to like”; it is still the altruistic love that is the finest inspiration of Christ’s teaching, as well as of the Mahāyāna.
Translation by Gyurme Dorje
- great loving kindness
- བྱམས་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
- byams pa chen po
- mahāmaitrī
See UT22084-031-002-255.