སྤྱོད་པ་བཅུ། | Glossary of Terms
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སྤྱོད་པ་བཅུ།
- spyod pa bcu
- daśacaryā
- Term
- ten modes of conduct
- སྤྱོད་པ་བཅུ།
- spyod pa bcu
- daśacaryā
These ten modes of conduct are enumerated in the Śatasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitābṛhaṭṭīkā (Toh 3807, Degé Tengyur vol. 91, F.37.a) as follows: (1) writing of the sacred scriptures (dam pa’i chos yi ger ’dri ba), (2) reading them (klog pa), (3) chanting them (kha ton byed pa), (4) bestowing them on others (gzhan la sbyin pa), (5) retaining them (i.e., their words and meaning) (’chang ba), (6) making offerings to them (mchod pa byed pa), (7) listening to others recite/expound them (nyan pa), (8) reflecting upon them (sems pa), (9) meditating on them (sgom pa), and (10) teaching them to others (gzhan dag la ston pa). An alternative listing is found in Ch. 43 of the Buddhāvataṃsaka, comprising (1) conduct that aims to bring all beings to maturation, (2) conduct that aims to investigate all phenomena, (3) conduct that aims to apply all trainings, (4) conduct that aims to accumulate all the roots of virtuous action, (5) conduct that aims to achieve one-pointed meditative stability, (6) conduct that aims to understand wisdom, (7) conduct that aims to cultivate meditation, (8) conduct that aims to adorn the buddhafields, (9) conduct that aims to venerate spiritual teachers, and (10) conduct that aims to make offerings to and serve the tathāgatas. See Nordrang Orgyan, pp. 2259–60.
- ten practices
- སྤྱོད་པ་བཅུ།
- spyod pa bcu
According to the list in Madhyāntavibhāga 5.9, the ten practices are writing out, worshiping, making a gift of, listening to, reading, taking up in the mind, explicating, reciting to oneself what one has memorized of, contemplating, and meditating on the perfection of wisdom.