- རིག་པ་དང་ཞབས་སུ་ལྡན་པ།
- rig pa dang zhabs su ldan pa
- vidyācaraṇasaṃpanna
- vidyācaraṇasampanna
- Term
- perfect in wisdom and conduct
- རིག་པ་དང་ཞབས་སུ་ལྡན་པ།
- rig pa dang zhabs su ldan pa
- vidyācaraṇasampanna AS
An epithet of a buddha.
- perfect in wisdom and conduct
- རིག་པ་དང་ཞབས་སུ་ལྡན་པ།
- rig pa dang zhabs su ldan pa
- vidyācaraṇasaṃpanna
A common description of buddhas. According to some explanations, “wisdom” refers to awakening, and “conduct” to the three trainings (bslab pa gsum) by means of which a buddha attains that awakening; according to others, “wisdom” refers to right view, and “conduct” to the other seven elements of the eightfold path.
- perfect in wisdom and conduct
- རིག་པ་དང་ཞབས་སུ་ལྡན་པ།
- rig pa dang zhabs su ldan pa
- vidyācaraṇasaṃpanna
A common description of buddhas. According to some explanations, “wisdom” refers to awakening, and “conduct” to the three trainings (bslab pa gsum) by means of which a buddha attains that awakening; according to others, “wisdom” refers to right view, and “conduct” to the other seven elements of the eightfold path.
- learned and virtuous one
- རིག་པ་དང་ཞབས་སུ་ལྡན་པ།
- rig pa dang zhabs su ldan pa
- vidyācaraṇasampanna AO
An epithet of a buddha. Sometimes translated as “perfect in wisdom and conduct.” Here it is the fourth epithet through which the Buddha Śākyamuni is to be recollected.
- learned and virtuous one
- རིག་པ་དང་ཞབས་སུ་ལྡན་པ།
- rig pa dang zhabs su ldan pa
- vidyācaraṇasampanna AO
An epithet of a buddha. Here it is the fourth epithet through which the Buddha Śākyamuni is to be recollected when experiencing fear, trepidation, or terror.
- endowed with knowledge and feet
- རིག་པ་དང་ཞབས་སུ་ལྡན་པ།
- rig pa dang zhabs su ldan pa
- vidyācaraṇasampanna
The Nibandhana explains this as a metaphor of the eye and the feet, which, operating together, allow one to move; knowledge, interpreted as either “right view” or as “the training in wisdom,” is like the eye, while the other seven parts of the noble eightfold path, or the two other trainings in discipline and samādhi, function as the “feet.” This explanation is also found in the sgra sbyor bam po gnyis pa commentary on the Mahāvyutpatti, which further clarifies that zhabs is here simply the honorific term for “foot” (caraṇa ni rkang pa). Thus, although it is not uncommon to translate caraṇa here with “conduct,” this loses the significance of the metaphor.
- endowed with perfect knowledge and conduct
- རིག་པ་དང་ཞབས་སུ་ལྡན་པ།
- rig pa dang zhabs su ldan pa
- vidyācaraṇasampanna AS
This term also has the literal meaning of “endowed with knowledge and feet.” The Nibandhana explains this as a metaphor of the eye and the feet, which, operating together, allow one to move; knowledge, interpreted as either “right view” or as “the training in wisdom,” is like the eye, while the other seven parts of the noble eightfold path, or the two other trainings in discipline and samādhi, function as the “feet.” This explanation is also found in the sgra sbyor bam po gnyis pa commentary on the Mahāvyutpatti, which further clarifies that zhabs is here simply the honorific term for “foot” (caraNa ni rkang pa).