The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1784 page)
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Parame
vara
vara(Skt., ‘the highest god’). In
Kashmir
aivism
, the highest Reality, conceived to be either beyond all thirty-six
tattvas
or as the thirty-seventh. All reality, both mystical and material, emanates from Parame
vara, also called Parama
iva, through a process of ‘shining forth’ (
bh
sa
).
Kashmir
aivism, the highest Reality, conceived to be either beyond all thirty-six
tattvas
or as the thirty-seventh. All reality, both mystical and material, emanates from Parame
vara, also called Paramaiva, through a process of ‘shining forth’ (bhsa).
P
ramit
ramit(Skt., ‘that which has crossed over’). In Mah
y
na Buddhism, the six (or later ten) virtues developed by
bodhisattvas
:
yna Buddhism, the six (or later ten) virtues developed bybodhisattvas
:
(i)
d
(ii)la-paramit
(iii) k
(iv)
v
(v)
dhy
(vi)
prajña-paramit
(vii)
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