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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> | + | '''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. 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.