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equanimity

TECHNICAL TERM DETAILS (English)

Term equanimity
Tibetan btang-snyoms
Sanskrit upeksha
Pali
Definition (1) The mental factor (subsidiary awareness) of having an equal attitude toward everyone. (2) In Theravada, when practiced as a bodhisattva, the tenth of the ten far-reaching attitudes -- the attitude with which one does not expect anything in return for one's help, being indifferent to pleasure and pain, and to any benefit or harm one might receive.

TRANSLATION (Vietnamese)

Translation tâm xả
Definition

OTHER TRANSLATIONS

Arabic اتزان
German Gleichmut
Italian equanimità
Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... equanimity; neutral feeling; neglect
Russian беспристрастие
Vietnamese tâm xả