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In the context of Buddhist ethics, what gets translated as the “perfections” (pāramitās) are a set of certain moral and intellectual practices that provide the path from the confused suffering of samsara (cyclic existence) to the wisdom of liberation, which includes a deep understanding of no-Self and emptiness, and the release from suffering such wisdom brings. In Tibetan, what gets translated as “perfection” (pha rol tu phyin pa) is more literally a “crossing over” from suffering to the cessation of suffering.
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McRae, E. Finding a Place for Buddhism in the Ethics of the Future: Comments on Shannon Vallor’s Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting . Philos. Technol. 31, 277–282 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-017-0287-x
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