quality

Karunā

Beliefs & concepts

Compassion as active care for beings in Buddhist speech. Not metta as friendliness alone, and not mercy as remission language.

Also known as Karuna

Buddhist traditions

  • Karunā appears in Buddhist traditions.

    Watson’s Lotus Sūtra attests karuṇā among the bodhisattva’s great compassion for suffering beings. Named Buddhist karuṇā in that sūtra, not compassion as the English mood alone and not mettā.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)

    Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.