Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c29.847
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c29.847
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v2.c29.847
Besides practising the (thirty) pāramī, all Bodhisattas must make the five great sacrifices (mahāpariccāga)—giving up wife, children, kingdom, life and limb⁸—and must fulfil the three kinds of conduct (cariyā) ñātattha-cariyā, lokatthacariyā and buddhiatthacariyā—and the seven mahādānas as practised by Vessantara, which caused the earth to quake seven times.⁹