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sincerity

TECHNICAL TERM DETAILS (English)

Term sincerity
Tibetan bsam-pa
Sanskrit
Pali
Definition Sincerity has two factors included in it: (1) lack of hypocrisy (g.yo-med) – not hiding our own faults, (2) lack of pretension (sgyu-med) – not pretending to have qualities that we do not have.

TRANSLATIONS

German Ehrlichkeit
Italian sincerità
Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... verb: think; thinking; imagine; wish noun: thought; thinking; wish. ... dga' ba: joyful thought; delight in thought. ... rgya chen po: extensive thought. ... ma gos pa: stainless thought
Russian искренность