paramitas

Translated as the perfections, the paramitas are virtues cultivated on the path to awakening. In Mahayana Buddhism, they are associated with the bodhisattva path, commonly enumerated as: generosity, morality, patience, effort, concentration, and wisdom, with some lists also including skillful means, vow, power, and knowledge. In Theravada traditions, the paramitas are typically listed as ten perfections cultivated by the Buddha in his past lives: generosity, morality, renunciation, wisdom, effort, patience, truthfulness, determination, loving-kindness, and equanimity.