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<noinclude>[[Image:Haribhadra.JPG|thumb|[[Haribhadra]], author of the most famous commentary on the ''[[Abhisamayalankara]]'']] | <noinclude>[[Image:Haribhadra.JPG|thumb|[[Haribhadra]], author of the most famous commentary on the ''[[Abhisamayalankara]]'']] | ||
| − | '''Eight topics''' (Skt. ''[[aṣṭa padārtha]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[དངོས་པོ་བརྒྱད་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[dngos po brgyad]]'') or the '''[[eight clear realizations]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མངོན་རྟོགས་བརྒྱད་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[mngon rtogs brgyad]]'') — the ''[[Abhisamayalankara]]'' is divided into eight topics:<br> | + | |
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| + | '''[[Eight topics]]''' (Skt. ''[[aṣṭa padārtha]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[དངོས་པོ་བརྒྱད་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[dngos po brgyad]]'') or the '''[[eight clear realizations]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མངོན་རྟོགས་བརྒྱད་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[mngon rtogs brgyad]]'') — the ''[[Abhisamayalankara]]'' is divided into eight topics:<br> | ||
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==The [[eight topics]]== | ==The [[eight topics]]== | ||
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#[[knowledge of all aspects]], [[omniscience]] (Skt. ''[[Sarvākārajñatā]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྣམ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཉིད་]]}}, ''[[nam kun khyen nyi]]'' or {{BigTibetan|[[རྣམ་མཁྱེན་]]}}, "[[namkhyen]]")<br> | #[[knowledge of all aspects]], [[omniscience]] (Skt. ''[[Sarvākārajñatā]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྣམ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཉིད་]]}}, ''[[nam kun khyen nyi]]'' or {{BigTibetan|[[རྣམ་མཁྱེན་]]}}, "[[namkhyen]]")<br> | ||
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#[[path-knowledge]] (Skt. ''[[Mārgākārajñatā]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ལམ་ཤེས་ཉིད་]]}}, ''[[lamshe nyi]]'' or {{BigTibetan|[[ལམ་ཤེས་]]}}, ''[[lamshe]]'')<br> | #[[path-knowledge]] (Skt. ''[[Mārgākārajñatā]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ལམ་ཤེས་ཉིད་]]}}, ''[[lamshe nyi]]'' or {{BigTibetan|[[ལམ་ཤེས་]]}}, ''[[lamshe]]'')<br> | ||
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#[[base-knowledge]], [[knowledge]] of the bases, [[knowledge]] of the foundation (Skt. ''[[vastujñāna]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གཞི་ཤེས་]]}}, ''[[zhishe]]'') but also all-knowledge (Skt. ''[[Sarvajñatā]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཐམས་ཅད་ཤེས་པ་ཉིད་]]}}, ''[[tamche shepa nyi]]'')<br> | #[[base-knowledge]], [[knowledge]] of the bases, [[knowledge]] of the foundation (Skt. ''[[vastujñāna]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གཞི་ཤེས་]]}}, ''[[zhishe]]'') but also all-knowledge (Skt. ''[[Sarvajñatā]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཐམས་ཅད་ཤེས་པ་ཉིད་]]}}, ''[[tamche shepa nyi]]'')<br> | ||
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#[[complete application of all aspects]], application of the [[realization]] of all aspects (Skt. ''[[Sarvākārābhisambodha]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྣམ་ཀུན་མངོན་རྫོགས་རྟོགས་པ་]]}} but also {{BigTibetan|[[རྣམ་རྫོགས་སྦྱོར་བ་]]}}, ''[[namdzog jorwa]]'')<br> | #[[complete application of all aspects]], application of the [[realization]] of all aspects (Skt. ''[[Sarvākārābhisambodha]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྣམ་ཀུན་མངོན་རྫོགས་རྟོགས་པ་]]}} but also {{BigTibetan|[[རྣམ་རྫོགས་སྦྱོར་བ་]]}}, ''[[namdzog jorwa]]'')<br> | ||
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#[[culminating application]], application when reaching the peak (Skt. ''[[Murdhābhisamaya]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྩེ་མོར་སྦྱོར་བ་]]}}, ''[[tsemor jorwa]]'')<br> | #[[culminating application]], application when reaching the peak (Skt. ''[[Murdhābhisamaya]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྩེ་མོར་སྦྱོར་བ་]]}}, ''[[tsemor jorwa]]'')<br> | ||
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#[[progressive application]], [[gradual training]], [[gradual]] application of the [[bodhisattva path]] (Skt. ''[[Anupurvābhisamaya]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མཐར་གྱིས་པའི་སྦྱོར་བ་]]}}, ''[[thar gyi jorwa]]'')<br> | #[[progressive application]], [[gradual training]], [[gradual]] application of the [[bodhisattva path]] (Skt. ''[[Anupurvābhisamaya]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མཐར་གྱིས་པའི་སྦྱོར་བ་]]}}, ''[[thar gyi jorwa]]'')<br> | ||
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#[[instantaneous application]], momentary {{Wiki|training}} (Skt. ''[[Ekakṣanābhisamaya]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྐད་ཅིག་མའི་སྦྱོར་བ་]]}}, ''[[kechigme jorwa]]'')<br> | #[[instantaneous application]], momentary {{Wiki|training}} (Skt. ''[[Ekakṣanābhisamaya]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྐད་ཅིག་མའི་སྦྱོར་བ་]]}}, ''[[kechigme jorwa]]'')<br> | ||
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#[[dharmakaya]] (Skt. ''[[dharmakāya]]'' but also ''[[Dharmakāyābhisambodha]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[chos sku]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཆོས་སྐུ་]]}}, ''[[chö ku]]'') | #[[dharmakaya]] (Skt. ''[[dharmakāya]]'' but also ''[[Dharmakāyābhisambodha]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[chos sku]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཆོས་སྐུ་]]}}, ''[[chö ku]]'') | ||
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==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
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* [[Seventy points]], a subdivision of the eight topics. | * [[Seventy points]], a subdivision of the eight topics. | ||
Latest revision as of 04:57, 4 March 2016
Eight topics (Skt. aṣṭa padārtha; Tib. དངོས་པོ་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. dngos po brgyad) or the eight clear realizations (Tib. མངོན་རྟོགས་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. mngon rtogs brgyad) — the Abhisamayalankara is divided into eight topics:
The eight topics
- knowledge of all aspects, omniscience (Skt. Sarvākārajñatā; Tib. རྣམ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཉིད་, nam kun khyen nyi or རྣམ་མཁྱེན་, "namkhyen")
- path-knowledge (Skt. Mārgākārajñatā; Tib. ལམ་ཤེས་ཉིད་, lamshe nyi or ལམ་ཤེས་, lamshe)
- base-knowledge, knowledge of the bases, knowledge of the foundation (Skt. vastujñāna; Tib. གཞི་ཤེས་, zhishe) but also all-knowledge (Skt. Sarvajñatā; Tib. ཐམས་ཅད་ཤེས་པ་ཉིད་, tamche shepa nyi)
- complete application of all aspects, application of the realization of all aspects (Skt. Sarvākārābhisambodha; Tib. རྣམ་ཀུན་མངོན་རྫོགས་རྟོགས་པ་ but also རྣམ་རྫོགས་སྦྱོར་བ་, namdzog jorwa)
- culminating application, application when reaching the peak (Skt. Murdhābhisamaya; Tib. རྩེ་མོར་སྦྱོར་བ་, tsemor jorwa)
- progressive application, gradual training, gradual application of the bodhisattva path (Skt. Anupurvābhisamaya; Tib. མཐར་གྱིས་པའི་སྦྱོར་བ་, thar gyi jorwa)
- instantaneous application, momentary training (Skt. Ekakṣanābhisamaya; Tib. སྐད་ཅིག་མའི་སྦྱོར་བ་, kechigme jorwa)
- dharmakaya (Skt. dharmakāya but also Dharmakāyābhisambodha; Wyl. chos sku; Tib. ཆོས་སྐུ་, chö ku)
See Also
- Seventy points, a subdivision of the eight topics.
