Ten factors that illustrate omniscience
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Ten factors that illustrate omniscience — the first ten of the seventy points covered in the Abhisamayalankara, which illustrate omniscience, the first of the eight topics.
- The generation of bodhichitta (Tib. སེམས་བསྐྱེད་པ་, semkyepa), which is the nature of the mahayana path,
- The spiritual instructions (Tib. གདམས་ངག་, damngag), which are the method for attaining its objective,
- The four aspects of definite separation (Tib. ངེས་འབྱེད་ཡན་ལག་རྣམ་བཞི་, ngeje yenlag nam shi), which come about as a result of the instructions,
- The Buddha potential, the nature of the dharmadhatu (Tib. ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་, chö ki ying kyi rangshin) , which is the basis for attaining accomplishment (Tib. སྒྲུབ་པའི་རྟེན་གྱུར་པ་, drubpe tengyurpa) by practising the instructions unerringly,
- [Accomplishing the] activities of engagement (Tib. འཇུག་པའི་བྱ་བ་, jugpe jawa)
- [The practice of] accumulation (Tib. ཚོགས, tsog) and
- [The practice of] definite emergence (Tib. ངེས་པར་འབྱུང་, ngepar jung).