Guṇapāramitā

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Key Term	guṇapāramitā
In Tibetan Script	ཡོན་ཏན་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	yon tan pha rol tu phyin pa
Devanagari Sanskrit Script	गुणपारमिता
Romanized Sanskrit	guṇapāramitā
Chinese Script	功德波羅蜜‎
Chinese Pinyin	gōngdébōluómì
Japanese Script	kudokuharamitsu
English Standard	perfect qualities
Term Type	Noun
Source Language	Sanskrit
Basic Meaning	In the Śrīmālādevī Siṃhanāda Sūtra the Dharmakāya of a Buddha is said to possess the four perfect qualities of purity, bliss, permanence, and self.
Definitions

The six or ten types of practices which lead an individual to Buddhahood. The practice of perfections is particularly important in Mahāyāna Buddhism in which the entire path of the Bodhisattva to reach full enlightenment is included in the six or ten perfections. The six perfections are that of giving, of discipline, patience, zeal, meditation, and wisdom. The perfection of skill-in-means, aspirations, power, and pristine wisdom are added to them to make ten perfections.

In the Śrīmālādevī Siṃhanāda Sūtra it is explained that the dharmakāya of a buddha possesses the four perfect qualities of purity, bliss, permanence, and self.