abstract:Upaya (Sanskrit: , literally "expedient means" or "pedagogy"upāya - religious concept Encyclopædia Britannica) is a term in Mahayana Buddhism which is derived from the root upa√i and refers to a means that goes or brings one up to some goal, often the goal of enlightenment. The term is often used with kaushalya (कौशल्य, "cleverness"); upaya-kaushalya means roughly "skill in means".