(1) The mental factor (subsidiary awareness) of having an equal attitude toward everyone. (2) In Theravada, when conjoined with a bodhichitta aim, the tenth of the ten far-reaching attitudes (ten perfections) – the attitude with which one does not expect anything in return for one's help, being indifferent to pleasure and pain, and to any benefit or harm one might receive.
Tibetan: བཏང་སྙོམས། btang-snyoms
Sanskrit: upekṣā
Pali: upekkhā
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