波羅蜜多

(sa) pāramitā, 播囉弭多, derived from (sa) parama, highest, acme, is intp. as to cross over from this shore of births and deaths to the other shore, or nirvāṇa. The six (sa) pāramitās or means of so doing are:

(1) (sa) dāna, charity;

(2) (sa) śīla, moral conduct;

(3) (sa) kṣānti, patience;

(4) (sa) vīrya, energy, or devotion;

(5) (sa) dhyāna, contemplation, or abstraction;

(6) (sa) prajñā, knowledge. The 十度 ten are the above with

(7) (sa) upāya, use of expedient or proper means;

(8) (sa) praṇidhāna, vows, for (sa) bodhi and helpfulness;

(9) (sa) bāla, strength purpose;

(10) wisdom. Childers gives the list of ten as the perfect exercise of almsgiving, morality, abnegation of the world and of self, wisdom, energy, patience, truth, resolution, kindness, and resignation. Each of the ten is divisible into ordinary, superior, and unlimited perfection, or thirty in all. (sa) pāramitā is tr. by 度; 度無極; 到彼岸; 究竟.