The ten trancendental Virtues or Paramitas
Sunny Kumar
According to the Cariyā Pitaka commentary,
pāramītas are those virtues which are cultivated with compassion, guided by
reason, uninfluenced by selfish motives and unsullied by misbelief and all
feelings of self-conceit. In Sanskrit the term paramita literally means having
reached the other shore, or transcendence, or perfection
. Here having reached the other
shore means leaving the shore of suffering and attaining enlightenment. The paramitas were explained by the Buddha, in the Vajracchedikā Prajñā Pāramitā Sūtra, to Subhuti and other monks in
an assembly.
The way these paramitas were practiced
by the Bodhisattvas has been illustrated in several birth stories or Jatakas.
Initially there were only six paramitas but later on four more paramitas were
added. The cariyapitaka and Buddhavamsa mentions ten
paramitas
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