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སྙིང་རྗེ། | Glossary of Terms
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སྙིང་རྗེ།
- snying rje
- karuṇā
- kāruṇya
- Term
- compassion
- སྙིང་རྗེ།
- snying rje
- karuṇā
- kāruṇya
One of the four practices of spiritual practitioners and one of the four immeasurables (the others being loving-kindness or love, sympathetic joy, and equanimity).
- compassion
- སྙིང་རྗེ།
- snying rje
- karuṇā
Second of the four immeasurable aspirations.
- compassion
- སྙིང་རྗེ།
- snying rje
- karuṇā
One of the abodes of Brahmā, the other being: loving kindness or love, equanimity, and joy.
- compassion
- སྙིང་རྗེ།
- snying rje
- karuṇā
One of the four immeasurables.
- compassion
- སྙིང་རྗེ།
- snying rje
- karuṇā
One of the four immeasurables of the Mahāyāna, known in early Buddhism as “pure abodes” (Skt. brahmavihāra), which comprise (1) loving kindness, (2) compassion, (3) sympathetic joy, and (4) equanimity. Immeasurable compassion arises from the wish for all living beings to be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.
- compassion
- སྙིང་རྗེ།
- snying rje
- karuṇā