Hi John,

Ven. Thanissaro Bhikku has a list of 10 paramis with references to the
suttas at

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/study/perfections.html

From his introduction:

In the early centuries after the Buddha's passing away, as Buddhism became a
popular religion, the idea was formalized that there were three paths to
awakening to choose from: the path to awakening as a disciple of a Buddha
(savaka); the path to awakening as a private Buddha (pacceka-buddha), i.e.,
one who attained awakening on his own but was not able to teach the path of
practice to others; and the path to awakening as a Rightly Self-awakened
Buddha (samma sambuddho). The question then arose as to what the differences
between these three paths might be. All Buddhists agreed that the third path
took by far the longest to follow, and that it involved extra perfections
(parami) of character beyond those of the other two paths, but disagreements
arose as to what those perfections might be. The Theravadins, for instance,
specified ten perfections, and organized their Jataka collection so that it
culminated in ten tales, each illustrating one of the perfections. The
Sarvastivadins, on the other hand, specified six perfections, and organized
their Jataka collection accordingly.

I haven't read this piece and don't recall the paramis (perfections) all
appearing together (per se) in the canon.

Good hunting,

mike

----- Original Message -----
From: John Kelly <palistudent@...>
To: Pali <Pali@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 2:59 PM
Subject: [Pali] parami / paramita


> Dear friends,
>
> Can anyone tell me if the the paramis (paramitas) are
> mentionned in the Pali Canon, other than in the Jataka
> tales?
>
> I understand they are made more of a big deal of in
> Mahayana traditions (sometimes 6 of them, and
> sometimes 10), but I was wondering if there are any
> suttas that refer to them.
>
> Metta,
> John
>
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