Editing Virtue (section)

====Buddhism====
{{main|Buddhist ethics}}
{{See also|Five precepts}}
Buddhist practice as outlined in the [[Noble Eightfold Path]] can be regarded as a progressive list of virtues.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sponberg|first=Alan|chapter=Bodhisattva Path|editor-last1=Keown|editor-first1=Damien|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=NFpcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA89 89]|title=Encyclopedia of Buddhism|editor-last2=Prebish|editor-first2=Charles S.|year=2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-98588-1|language=en}}</ref>
# Right View – realizing the [[Four Noble Truths]] ({{transliteration|sa|samyag-vyāyāma}}, {{transliteration|pi|sammā-vāyāma}}).
# Right Mindfulness – mental ability to see things for what they are with clear consciousness ({{transliteration|sa|samyak-smṛti}}, {{transliteration|pi|sammā-sati}}).
# Right Concentration – wholesome one-pointedness of mind ({{transliteration|sa|samyak-samādhi}}, {{transliteration|pi|sammā-samādhi}}).

Buddhism's four {{transliteration|pi|[[brahmavihara]]}} ("Divine States") can be more properly regarded as virtues in the European sense. They are:
# {{transliteration|pi|[[Maitrī|Mettā]]}}/{{transliteration|sa|Maitrī}}: loving-kindness towards all; the hope that a person will be well; loving kindness is the wish that all sentient beings, without any exception, be happy.<ref name="autogenerated2">{{cite web|url=https://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhism/bs-s15.htm |title=Buddhist Studies for Secondary Students, Unit 6: The Four Immeasurables |publisher=Buddhanet.net |access-date=2014-01-01}}</ref>
# {{transliteration|sa|[[Karuṇā]]}}: compassion; the hope that a person's sufferings will diminish; compassion is the wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering.<ref name="autogenerated2" />
# {{transliteration|pi|[[Muditā]]}}: altruistic joy in the accomplishments of a person, oneself or other; sympathetic joy is the wholesome attitude of rejoicing in the happiness and virtues of all sentient beings.<ref name="autogenerated2" />
# {{transliteration|pi|Upekkhā}}/{{transliteration|sa|[[Upekṣā]]}}: equanimity, or learning to accept both loss and gain, [[praise]] and [[blame]], success and failure with detachment, equally, for oneself and for others. Equanimity means not to distinguish between friend, enemy or stranger, but to regard every sentient being as equal. It is a clear-minded tranquil state of mind – not being overpowered by delusions, mental dullness, or agitation.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/immeasurables_love_compassion_equanimity_rejoicing.html |title=A View on Buddhism, The four immeasurables: Love, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity |access-date=2006-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060819075238/http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/immeasurables_love_compassion_equanimity_rejoicing.html |archive-date=2006-08-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{better source needed|date=July 2023}}

There are also the {{transliteration|pi|[[Pāramitā]]s}} ("perfections"), which are the culmination of having acquired certain virtues. In [[Theravada]] [[Buddhism]]'s [[Pali Canon|canonical]] ''[[Buddhavaṃsa]]''<ref>Buddhavamsa, chapter 2. For an on-line reference to the Buddhavamsa's seminality in the Theravada notion of ''parami'', see {{cite web|url=https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/wheel409.html|translator=Bikkhu Bodhi|title=A Treatise on the Paramis, from the Commentary to the Cariyapitaka|author=Acariya Dhammapala|date=2005}}<br>In terms of other examples in the [[Pali literature]], {{cite book|title=The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary|chapter=Pāramī|editor-first1=T.W.|editor-last1=Rhys Davids|editor-link1=Thomas William Rhys Davids|editor-first2=William|editor-last2=Stede|page=P77|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.228441/page/n497/mode/1up|date=1921|volume=1}} cites [[Jataka]] i.73 and [[Dhammapada]] [[Atthakatha]] i.84. Bodhi (2005) also mentions Acariya [[Dhammapala]]'s treatise in the [[Cariyapitaka]]-[[Atthakatha]] and the [[Brahmajala Sutta (Theravada)|Brahmajala Sutta]] [[Subcommentaries, Theravada|subcommentary (''tika'')]].</ref> there are Ten Perfections ({{transliteration|pi|dasa pāramiyo}}). In [[Mahayana]] Buddhism, the [[Lotus Sutra]] (''Saddharmapundarika''), there are Six Perfections; while in the [[Dasabhumika Sutra|Ten Stages]] (''Dasabhumika'') Sutra, four more {{transliteration|pi|Paramitas}} are listed.