84000 Glossary of Terms

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དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་མི་འཇིགས་པ་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms

  • དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་མི་འཇིགས་པ་བཞི།

  • de bzhin gshegs pa’i mi ’jigs pa bzhi
  • catustathā­gatavaiśāradya
  • Term
Publications: 1
  • four types of confidence of the Tathāgata
  • དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་མི་འཇིགས་པ་བཞི།
  • de bzhin gshegs pa’i mi ’jigs pa bzhi
  • catustathā­gatavaiśāradya AS
Definition in this text:

The four types of confidence possessed by all buddhas: that (1) they are fully awakened, (2) they have removed all defilements, (3) they have taught about the obstacles to liberation, and (4) they have shown the path to liberation. See F.29.a.

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མི་འཇིགས་པ་བཞི།

  • caturabhaya
  • caturvaiśaradya
  • caturvaiśāradya
  • caturvāiśāradya
  • caturvāri vaiśāradyāni
  • catvāri vaiśāradyāni
  • fearless in four ways
  • four confidences
  • four fearlessnesses
  • four kinds of assurance
  • four kinds of confidence
  • four kinds of fearlessness
  • four states of fearlessness
  • four types of confidence
  • four types of fearlessness
  • four types of self-confidence
  • fourfold fearlessness