being true to one's word

TECHNICAL TERM DETAILS (English)

Term being true to one's word
Tibetan bden-pa
Sanskrit satya
Pali
Definition The mental state with which, once one gives one's word to do something to benefit others, one does not break one's promise. The seventh of the ten far-reaching attitudes developed by bodhisattvas according to the Theravada tradition.

TRANSLATION (Russian)

Translation правдивость
Definition

OTHER TRANSLATIONS

German Wahrhaftigkeit / zu seinem Wort stehen
Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... truth; reality [i.e., what exists the way it appears]
Russian правдивость