84000 Glossary of Terms

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བཟོད་པ། | Glossary of Terms

  • བཟོད་པ།

  • བཟོད།
  • bzod pa
  • bzod
  • kṣānti
  • kṣamaṇā
  • kṣamā
  • kṣānti.
  • Term
Publications: 44

A term meaning acceptance, forbearance, or patience. As the third of the six perfections, patience is classified into three kinds: the capacity to tolerate abuse from sentient beings, to tolerate the hardships of the path to buddhahood, and to tolerate the profound nature of reality. As a term referring to a bodhisattva’s realization, dharmakṣānti (chos la bzod pa) can refer to the ways one becomes “receptive” to the nature of Dharma, and it can be an abbreviation of anutpattikadharmakṣānti, “forbearance to the unborn nature, or nonproduction, of dharmas.”