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'''Eight qualities of the [[Sangha]]''' — </noinclude>According to [[Maitreya]]'s ''[[Uttaratantra Shastra]]'', the [[Sangha]] has 'eight qualities of [[knowledge]] and [[liberation]]' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རིག་གྲོལ་་གྱི་ཡོན་ཏན་བརྒྱད་]]}}, ''[[rig drol gyi yönten gye']]'; [[Wyl.]] ''[[rig grol gyi yon tan brgyad]]''): | '''Eight qualities of the [[Sangha]]''' — </noinclude>According to [[Maitreya]]'s ''[[Uttaratantra Shastra]]'', the [[Sangha]] has 'eight qualities of [[knowledge]] and [[liberation]]' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རིག་གྲོལ་་གྱི་ཡོན་ཏན་བརྒྱད་]]}}, ''[[rig drol gyi yönten gye']]'; [[Wyl.]] ''[[rig grol gyi yon tan brgyad]]''): | ||
[[Knowledge]] of:<br> | [[Knowledge]] of:<br> | ||
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:1) the profound [[nature]] of [[phenomena]]<br> | :1) the profound [[nature]] of [[phenomena]]<br> | ||
:2) the vast – [[phenomena]] in all their multiplicity<br> | :2) the vast – [[phenomena]] in all their multiplicity<br> | ||
Latest revision as of 06:48, 6 March 2024
Eight qualities of the Sangha — According to Maitreya's Uttaratantra Shastra, the Sangha has 'eight qualities of knowledge and liberation' (Tib. རིག་གྲོལ་་གྱི་ཡོན་ཏན་བརྒྱད་, rig drol gyi yönten gye''; Wyl. rig grol gyi yon tan brgyad):
Knowledge of:
- 1) the profound nature of phenomena
- 2) the vast – phenomena in all their multiplicity
- 3) discriminating awareness wisdom
Liberation of:
- 4) attachment, the emotional obscurations
- 5) hindrance, the cognitive obscurations
- 6) the inferior – the obscurations of the shravakas and pratyekabuddhas
And
- 7) knowledge; and
- 8) liberation.
