section_path: Practice
section_name: Practice
paragraph_text: Practice
  
  Mahāyāna Buddhist practice is quite varied. A common set of virtues and practices which is shared by all Mahāyāna traditions are the six perfections or transcendent virtues (pāramitā).
  
  A central practice advocated by numerous Mahāyāna sources is focused around "the acquisition of merit, the universal currency of the Buddhist world, a vast quantity of which was believed to be necessary for the attainment of Buddhahood".
  
  Another important class of Mahāyāna Buddhist practice are textual practices that deal with listening to, memorizing, reciting, preaching, worshipping and copying Mahāyāna sūtras.
  
  Buddhist preachers affiliated with Mahayana groups tend to focus on the importance of "the concepts of reincarnation and nirvana".