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THE BUDDHIST DOCTRINE OF LIBERATION
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6. The perfection of wisdom (prajñā-paramitā) The four supplementary pāramitās are as follows: 7. Skilfulness in means (upāya-kausalya) 8. Aspiration or resolution (pranidhana) 9. Strength or power (bala) and 10. Knowledge (jñāna).63
It will be an error to suppose that the Buddhists of later times discarded the practice of self-reliance and individual efforts in the direction of ultimate release. As a matter of fact the Bodhisattva's career stressed the doctrine of self-reliance but it universalized the meaning and perspective of self-reliance. It stressed the unity of life and the unity of Buddhahood. This concept of unity was given a concrete manifestation by the career of the Bodhisattvas who found their own liberation in the liberation of all other beings.
63. Bhikshu Sangharakshita, A Survey of Buddhism, p. 465; Har Dayal, The
Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature, p. 168.
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