ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྦྱིན་པ། | Glossary of Terms

ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྦྱིན་པ།

chos kyi sbyin pa

dharmadāna

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gift of Dharma

The Array of Virtues of Mañjuśrī’s Buddha Realm

gift of Dharma

ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྦྱིན་པ།

chos kyi sbyin pa

dharmadāna

Definition in this text:

One of the three modes of giving recorded in Buddhist literature, this refers to spreading the Dharma through teaching, recitation, copying of texts, and so forth. The other two consist of the gift of material goods (āmiṣadāna) and the gift of fearlessness (abhayadāna).

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AD

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AA

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RP

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RS

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