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गुणपारमिता guṇapāramitā
perfect qualities
ཡོན་ཏན་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་
yon tan pha rol tu phyin pa
功德波羅蜜
gōngdébōluómì
Sanskrit - Noun
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Basic Meaning

In the Śrīmālādevī Siṃhanāda Sūtra it is explained that the dharmakāya of a buddha possesses the four perfect qualities of purity, bliss, permanence, and self.

In other languages
Tibetan
ཡོན་ཏན་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་
yon tan pha rol tu phyin pa
Sanskrit
गुणपारमिता
guṇapāramitā
Chinese
功德波羅蜜
gōngdébōluómì
Japanese
kudokuharamitsu
How translators render it
perfect qualitiesBuddha-nature Standard
In the dictionaries
Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism

See page 337: In Sanskrit, “the perfection of qualities,” referring to the four salutary qualities of the tathāgatagarbha: permanence, purity, bliss, and self, as described in the Śrīmālādevīsiṃhanādasūtra . These qualities are in distinction to the four perverted views (viparyāsa), where ignorant sentient beings regard the conditioned realm of saṃsāra as being permanent, pure, blissful, and self when in fact it is impermanent (anitya), impure (aśubha), suffering (duḥkha ), and not-self (anātman).

Term type
Noun
Source language
Sanskrit
Topic
guṇapāramitā
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