The Six Transcendent Virtues (Post #2 of 4)

October 2, 2009

You may have found this website by googling “six virtues.” If you did, your search uncovered many six-virtue lists.

The most prevalent is the Buddhist six means of perfection, or the six transcendent virtues. These are translated into English as (1) the patience, (2) the charity, (3) the energy, (4) the wisdom or the science, (5) the contemplation or the charity, (6) the virtue or the purity. Translators have slightly different variations of this list. For example, the same idea of perfecting one’s self is described by Rev. Alfred Bloom in the Honolulu Advertiser as the six virtues of selfless giving, discipline, patient endurance, effort-energy, meditation, and wisdom.

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