Pāramitā (Sanskrit) or Parami (Pāli): "Perfection" or "Transcendent" (lit. "Having reached the other shore"). In Buddhism, the Paramitas refer to the perfection or culmination of certain practices. These practices are cultivated by Bodhisattvas for crossing from sensuous life (Samsara) to Enlightenment (Nirvana).
In TheravadaBuddhism, the Ten Perfections (Paramis) are; (original terms in Pali)
In Mahayana Buddhism, the Perfection_of_Wisdom (Prajna-paramita) Sutra and Lotus (Saddharmapundarika) Sutra list the Six Perfections as; (original terms in Sanskrit)
Compassion and Bodhicitta (http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/compassion.html)
Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (http://www.acmuller.net/cgi-bin/search-ddb4.pl?Terms=波羅蜜) (log in with userID "guest")
Renunciation by T. Prince (http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/bps/leaves/bl036.html), a free distribution article on the Buddhist conception of renunciation
"The morphology of the external surface of the petrosal and its junction with the basioccipital in Paramys copei is described.
Sciuravus is set apart by the lack of a ventral petrosal sinus canal between the petrosal and basioccipital and by the facial nerve and stapedial artery sharing a common foramen in the petrosal.
European theridomyids, too, are not as primitive as Paramys but share with it and Sciuravus a ridge on the promontorium that separates the transpromontorial continuation of the internal carotid artery from the origin of the tensor tympani muscle.
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