六行

Among Buddhists the term means the practice of the 六度 six (sa) pāramitās; it is referred, among outsiders, to the six austerities of the six kinds of heretics:

(1) 自餓 starvation;

(2) 投淵 naked cave-dwelling (or, throwing oneself down precipices);

(3) 赴火 self-immolation, or self-torturing by fire;

(4) 自坐 sitting naked in public;

(5) 寂默 dwelling in silence among graves;

(6) 牛狗 living as animals.