Ten paramitas
ten paramitas
[十波羅蜜] (Jpn ju-haramitsu or jipparamitsu )
Ten kinds of practice carried out by bodhisattvas for their own enlightenment as well as for the enlightenment of other people. The ten paramitas are the six paramitas (almsgiving, keeping the precepts, forbearance, assiduousness, meditation, and the obtaining of wisdom)—plus the paramitas of expedient means, the vow, power, and knowledge. The paramita of expedient means is to make full use of skillful means to benefit other people, and the paramita of the vow is to pledge to lead other people to enlightenment. The paramita of power is the power of practice, and the paramita of knowledge, the perfection of knowledge for the purpose of leading other people to enlightenment. These four practices are regarded as auxiliary to the six paramitas.
See also six paramitas.
