guṇapāramitā

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Sanskrit Noun

guṇapāramitā

perfect qualities
गुणपारमिता
ཡོན་ཏན་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་
功德波羅蜜

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.

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Term Variations
Key Term guṇapāramitā
Topic Variation guṇapāramitā
Tibetan ཡོན་ཏན་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration yon tan pha rol tu phyin pa
Devanagari Sanskrit गुणपारमिता
Romanized Sanskrit guṇapāramitā
Chinese 功德波羅蜜
Chinese Pinyin gōngdébōluómì
Japanese kudokuharamitsu
Buddha-nature Site Standard English perfect qualities
Term Information
Source Language Sanskrit
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.
Term Type Noun
Definitions
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).