Means for attaining salvation (Moksha)

Any skilful means, e.g. meditation on loving kindness, to overcome anger.

skill in means” – array of expedient devices employed by bodhisattvas to enlighten beings trapped in suffering existence. Upaya becomes deified as the male member of a bipolar relationship – with the female prajna (“wisdom”).

(Skt.) Means, methods, techniques; in full upaya-kaushalya, "skillful means," referring to the Buddhaís ability to teach appropriately for any student.

literally`skillful means`. Buddhist practitioners aspire to use skillful means in all situations.

(Sanskrit) A means, device or method; Mahayana terms for practical means to a spiritual end.

( Skt.): Also called skillful means. The vajrayana notion of compassion, denoting the spontaneous activity arising from a realized being for the benefit of others.

("means"): in Buddhist yoga, the practice of compassion (karuna); cf. prajna

Upaya (Sanskrit: उपाय) is a term in Mahayana Buddhism which is often translated as "means", though literally "expedient" would be more accurate, as "upaya" (from upa√i) refers to something which goes or brings you up to something (i.e., a goal).