Term | being true to one's word |
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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. |
German | Wahrhaftigkeit / zu seinem Wort stehen |
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Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... | truth; reality [i.e., what exists the way it appears] |
Russian | правдивость |