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Tibetan
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Tibetan may mean:
- of, from, or related to Tibet
- Tibetan people, an ethnic group
- Tibetan language:
- Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard
- Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dialect
- Tibetan pinyin, a method of writing Standard Tibetan in Latin script
- Tibetan script
- any other of the Tibetic languages
Tibetan may additionally refer to:
The ten paramitas (Skt. daśa pāramitā; Tib. ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་བཅུ་, parol tu chinpa chu, Wyl. pha rol tu phyin pa bcu) are:
The six paramitas
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| frame | Bodhisattva [[sangha from the Longchen Nyingtik field of merit]] The six paramitas or 'transcendent perfections' (Skt. ṣaṭpāramitā; Tib. ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་དྲུག་, parol tu chinpa druk, Wyl. pha rol tu phyin pa drug) comprise the training of a bodhisattva, which is bodhichitta in action. </noinclude>
- Generosity: to cultivate the attitude of generosity.
- Discipline: refraining from harm.
- Patience: the ability not to be perturbed by anything.
- Diligence: to find joy in what is virtuous, positive or wholesome.
- Meditative concentration: not to be distracted.
- Wisdom: the perfect discrimination of phenomena, all knowable things.
<noinclude> The first five paramitas correspond to the accumulation of merit, and the sixth to the accumulation of wisdom. The sixth paramita can be divided into four, resulting in ten paramitas.
Canonical Literature
Sutras
- Fortunate Aeon Sutra<ref>See The Fortunate Aeon: How the Thousand Buddhas Became Enlightened (Berkeley: Dharma Publishing, 1986), Vol. One, pages 97-477.</ref>
- Samdhinirmochana Sutra, chapter 9
Shastras
The six paramitas are mentioned and explained in many of the most important Indian Mahayana sources, such as
References
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Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa]] | [[Rigpa]] Sangha
- Dzogchen Rinpoche, London, 19-23 June 1998
- Sogyal Rinpoche, Dzogchen Beara, Ireland, 8 July 2012
Further Reading
- Dzogchen Ponlop, Rebel Buddha (Boston: Shambhala, 2010), pages 124-132.
- Geshe Sonam Rinchen, The Six Perfections, translated by Ruth Sonam (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1998), ISBN 978-1559390897
- Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang, A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2004), pages 181-219.
- Patrul Rinpoche, The Words of My Perfect Teacher (Boston: Shambhala, Revised edition, 1998), pages 234-261.
- Khenpo Kunzang Palden | Khenpo Kunpal, Drops of Nectar | The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech, translated by Padmakara Translation Group. Published by Shambhala. ISBN 978-1-59030-439-6
- Khenpo Palden Sherab Rinpoche,Ceasless Echoes of the Great Silence, a Commentary on the Heart Sutra. Translated by Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. Pages 81-96. Published by Sky Dancer Press.
- Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Lazy Lama looks at The Six Paramitas (Bodhicharya Publications, 2021)
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche, The Six Perfection: The Practice of the Bodhisattvas (Wisdom Publications, 2020)
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plus the paramitas of: :7. Skilful means (Skt. upāyakauśalapāramitā; Tib. ཐབས་ལ་མཁས་པ་, tap la khepa, Wyl. thabs la mkhas pa), :8. Strength (Skt. balapāramitā; Tib. སྟོབས་, top, Wyl. stobs), :9. Aspiration prayers (Skt. praṇidhānapāramitā; Tib. སྨོན་ལམ་, mönlam, Wyl. smon lam) and :10. Primordial wisdom (Skt. jñānapāramitā; Tib. ཡེ་ཤེས་, yeshe, Wyl. ye shes).
These last four paramitas are aspects of the sixth paramita—the paramita of wisdom—and are not added to the first six. The way of dividing the paramitas into ten is particularly related to the teachings on the bhumis which describe the progression of a bodhisattva where each of the paramitas are successively perfected on each of the ten bhumis.
In the Samdhinirmochana Sutra, the Buddha explains how the last four paramitas 'assist' the first six.
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