84000 Glossary of Terms

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སྙིང་རྗེ། | Glossary of Terms

  • སྙིང་རྗེ།

  • snying rje
  • karuṇā
  • kāruṇya
  • Term
Publications: 7
Translation by Gyurme Dorje
  • compassion
  • སྙིང་རྗེ།
  • snying rje
  • karuṇā
Definition in this text:

Second of the four immeasurable qualities.

Translation by Gareth Sparham
  • compassion
  • སྙིང་རྗེ།
  • snying rje
  • karuṇā
  • kāruṇya
Definition in this text:

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).

Translation by Gyurme Dorje
  • compassion
  • སྙིང་རྗེ།
  • snying rje
  • karuṇā
Definition in this text:

Second of the four immeasurable aspirations.

Translation by Dr. Anne Burchardi · Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche · Dr. Ulrich Pagel
  • compassion
  • སྙིང་རྗེ།
  • snying rje
  • karuṇā
Definition in this text:

One of the abodes of Brahmā, the other being: loving kindness or love, equanimity, and joy.

Translation by Jens Braarvig
  • compassion
  • སྙིང་རྗེ།
  • snying rje
  • karuṇā
Definition in this text:

One of the four immeasurables.

Translation by David Jackson
  • compassion
  • སྙིང་རྗེ།
  • snying rje
  • karuṇā
Definition in this text:

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.

Translation by Zhuo Siyu · Dr. Shenghai Li
  • compassion
  • སྙིང་རྗེ།
  • snying rje
  • karuṇā