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TECHNICAL TERM DETAILS (English)

Term renunciation

Referenced by:
determination to be free (alternative term)
Tibetan nges-'byung
Sanskrit nihsarana
Pali
Definition The definite determination to be free of samsara and to gain liberation, and with which one is willing to give up true suffering and true causes. Also translated as "determination to be free."

TRANSLATION (Vietnamese)

Translation tâm xả ly
Definition

OTHER TRANSLATIONS

Arabic التخلي
German Entsagung
French renoncement
Italian rinuncia
Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... definite emergence/deliverance/leaving from cyclic existence. definite emergence [from cyclic existence]; renunciation. [definitely-emerge]; definite emergence [from cyclic existence]; renunciation; thought definitely to leave [cyclic existence]
Russian отречение
Vietnamese tâm xả ly