"[2] Kṣānti has several applications: It can refer to patience with others, that is, the ability to endure abuse and hardship inflicted by sentient beings while maintaining compassion and commitment to their liberation.
[2] Kṣānti can also refer to endurance on the path, the resolve to withstand the difficulties encountered during the long journey toward Buddhahood without losing focus on liberating all beings from saṃsāra.
[6] In a Jātaka tale, Exposition on Patience Birth Story (Khanti-vaṇṇana-jātaka: J 225), the Buddha tells of a former life when he was Brahmadatta, a king of Benares.
In response, the king disclosed his knowledge of the courtier's betrayal and stated: Good men, I trow, are rare enow: so patience is my rede.
[9] Kṣānti (Tibetan: bzod pa; Chinese: 忍辱, renru; Japanese: ninniku) is one of the six pāramitās in Mahayana Buddhism and is thus a central aspect of the bodhisattva path.
In the path of preparation (prayogamārga), kṣānti serves as one of the "aids to penetration" (nirvedhabhāgīya), marking a transition to the direct vision of the Four Noble Truths (darśanamārga).
[2] Mahāyāna and some northern Buddhist sources also teach a special doctrine on the term anutpattikadharmakṣānti (Tibetan: mi skye ba’i chos la bzod pa; Chinese: 無生法忍, wushengfaren): "receptivity to the non-production of dharmas."
In Mahāyāna, this denotes a bodhisattva's unwavering conviction that all phenomena (dharmas) are intrinsically "unproduced" (anutpāda) and "empty" (śūnyatā), lacking any inherent essence (niḥsvabhāva).
This insight inoculates the practitioner against the temptation to prematurely abandon the bodhisattva path for personal liberation and emphasizes the nonduality of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa.