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safe direction

TECHNICAL TERM DETAILS (English)

Term safe direction

Referenced by:
refuge (alternative term)
direction, safe (cross-reference only)
Tibetan skyabs
Sanskrit sharana
Pali
Definition A direction that one puts in one's life that will protect one from true suffering and its true causes, and, when one reaches the goal of this direction, allows one to avoid true suffering and its true causes forever. Some translators render this as "refuge."

TRANSLATION (French)

Translation direction sûre
Definition Une direction que l'on fait prendre à sa vie et qui nous protégera de la vraie souffrance et de ses vraies causes et qui, lorsque l'on atteint le but de cette direction, nous permet d'éviter la vraie souffrance et ses vraies causes pour toujours. Certains traducteurs rendent le terme par "refuge".

OTHER TRANSLATIONS

German sichere Richtung / sichere Ausrichtung
French direction sûre
Italian direzione sicura
Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... refuge; protection; something like a dandelion which grows in the woods and has three flowers to a stalk
Russian надежное направление
Vietnamese quy y (When this term first appears in the article, add in parenthesis: (phương hướng an toàn) )