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དགེ་བ་བཅུ། | Glossary of Terms
དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
dge ba bcu
daśakuśala
- Term
- Ten virtues
- དགེ་བའི་བཅུ།
- dge ba’i bcu
- daśakuśala
Abstaining from killing, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, lying, uttering divisive talk, speaking harsh words, gossiping, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views.
- Ten virtues
- དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- dge ba bcu
- daśakuśala
There are three physical virtues: saving lives, giving, and sexual propriety. There are four verbal virtues: truthfulness, reconciling discussions, gentle speech, and religious speech. There are three mental virtues: loving attitude, generous attitude, and right views. The whole doctrine is collectively called the “tenfold path of good action” (daśakuśalakarmapatha).
- Ten virtues
- དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- dge ba bcu
- daśakuśala
Abstaining from killing, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, lying, uttering divisive talk, speaking harsh words, gossiping, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views.
- Ten virtues
- དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- dge ba bcu
- daśakuśala
Abstaining from killing, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, lying, uttering divisive talk, speaking harsh words, gossiping, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views.
- Ten virtues
- དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- dge ba bcu
- daśakuśala
Abstaining from killing, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, lying, uttering divisive talk, speaking harsh words, gossiping, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views.
- Ten virtues
- དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- dge ba bcu
- daśakuśala
Abstaining from: killing, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, lying, uttering divisive talk, speaking harsh words, gossiping, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views. These are collectively called the “ten courses of virtuous action” (daśakuśalakarmapatha).
- Ten virtues
- དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- dge ba bcu
- kuśala
These are the opposite of the ten sins, i.e., refraining from engaging in activities related to the ten sins and doing the opposite. There are three physical virtues: saving lives, giving, and sexual propriety. There are four verbal virtues: truthfulness, reconciling discussions, gentle speech, and religious speech. There are three mental virtues: loving attitude, generous attitude, and right views. The whole doctrine is collectively called the “tenfold path of good action” (daśakuśalakarmapatha).
- Ten virtues
- དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- dge ba bcu
- daśakuśala
- 十善
Abstaining from killing, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, lying, uttering divisive talk, speaking harsh words, gossiping, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views.
- Ten virtues
- དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- dge ba bcu
- daśakuśala
Abstaining from killing, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, lying, uttering divisive talk, speaking harsh words, gossiping, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views.
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- Ten virtues
- དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- dge ba bcu
- daśakuśala
Abstaining from killing, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, lying, uttering divisive talk, speaking harshly, gossiping, covetousness, ill-will, and wrong views.
- Ten virtuous actions
- དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- dge ba bcu
- daśakusala
The ten virtuous actions are divided into three modes of excellent physical conduct, four modes of excellent verbal conduct, and three modes of excellent mental conduct.
See UT22084-031-002-2260.
- Ten virtuous actions
- དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- dge ba bcu
- daśakuśala
Abstaining from the ten nonvirtuous actions. Namely, abstaining from killing, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, lying, uttering divisive talk, speaking harsh words, gossiping, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views.
- Ten virtuous actions
- དགེ་བ་བཅུའི་ལས།
- dge ba bcu’i las
- daśakuśalakarma
The opposite of the standard nonvirtuous actions (three of the body, four of the speech, and three of the mind).
- Ten virtuous actions
- དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- dge ba bcu
- daśakuśala
Abstaining from killing, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, lying, uttering divisive talk, speaking harsh words, gossiping, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views.
- Ten virtuous actions
- དགེ་བ་བཅུའི་ལས།
- dge ba bcu’i las
- daśakuśalakarman
Refraining from the ten unvirtuous actions, i.e., not killing, not stealing, not engaging in sexual misconduct, not lying, not speaking divisively, not speaking harshly, not gossiping, not being covetous, not being malicious, and not having wrong views.
- Ten virtuous actions
- དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- dge ba bcu
- daśakuśala
Abstaining from killing, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, lying, uttering divisive talk, speaking harsh words, gossiping, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views.
- Ten virtuous actions
- དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- dge ba bcu
- daśakuśala
Abstaining from killing, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, lying, uttering divisive talk, speaking harsh words, gossiping, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views.
- Ten virtuous actions
- དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- dge ba bcu
- daśakuśala
Abstaining from killing, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, lying, uttering divisive talk, speaking harsh words, chatter, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views.
- Ten virtuous actions
- དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- dge ba bcu
- daśakuśala
Abstaining from killing, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, lying, uttering divisive talk, speaking harsh words, gossiping, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views.
- Ten good actions
- དགེ་བ་བཅུའི་ལས།
- dge ba bcu’i las
- daśakuśalakarma
Abstaining from killing, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, lying, uttering divisive talk, speaking harsh words, gossiping, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views.
- Ten good actions
- དགེ་བ་བཅུའི་ལས།
- dge ba bcu’i las
- daśakuśalakarma
Not engaging in the ten bad actions: killing, taking what is not given, practicing sexual misconduct, lying, divisive speech, harsh speech, idle talk, covetousness, malice, and false view.
- Ten wholesome actions
- དགེ་བ་བཅུའི་ལས།
- dge ba bcu’i las
- daśakuśalakarma
These are the opposite of the ten unwholesome actions. There are three physical virtues: saving lives, giving, and sexual propriety. There are four verbal virtues: truthfulness, reconciling discussions, gentle speech, and religious speech. There are three mental virtues: a loving attitude, a generous attitude, and right views.