Ten paramitas

The ten paramitas are the six paramitas plus:

• skillfull means (Tib. tap la khepa),
• strength (Tib. top),
• aspiration prayers (Tib. mön lam) and
• primordial wisdom (Tib. yeshe).

These four paramitas are aspects of the sixth paramita—the paramita of wisdom—and are not added to the first six. The way of dividing the paramitas into ten is particularly related to the teachings on the bhumis which describe the progression of a bodhisattva where each of the paramitas are successively perfected on each of the ten bhumis.