Twenty-one sets of immaculate qualities
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Twenty-one sets of immaculate qualities (Tib. ཟག་པ་མེད་པའི་ཆོས་སྡེ་ཚན་ཉེར་གཅིག་, Wyl. zag pa med pa'i chos sde tshan nyer gcig) — the qualities of the buddha's dharmakaya, which are mentioned in the Abhisamayalankara[1]:
- Thirty-seven factors of enlightenment (Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་བདུན་)
- Four immeasurables (Tib. ཚད་མེད་བཞི་)
- Eight perfect freedoms (Tib. རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. rnam par thar pa brgyad)
- Nine states of successive abiding (Tib. མཐར་གྱིས་གནས་པའི་སྙོམས་འཇུག་དགུ་, Wyl. mthar gyis gnas pa'i snyoms 'jug dgu)
- Eight spheres of subjugation (Tib. ཟིལ་གྱིས་གནོན་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. zil gyis gnon pa'i skye mched brgyad)
- Ten totalities (Tib. ཟད་པ་བཅུ་, Wyl. zad pa bcu)
- Absence of destructive emotions (Tib. ཉོན་མོངས་མེད་པ་, Wyl. nyon mongs med pa)
- Knowledge from aspiration (Tib. སྨོན་ནས་མཁྱེན་པ་, Wyl. smon nas mkhyen pa)
- Six clear perceptions (Tib. མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་དྲུག་, Wyl. mngon par shes pa drug)
- Four perfect knowledges (Tib. སོ་སོ་ཡང་དག་པར་རིག་པ་བཞི་, Wyl. so so yang dag par rig pa bzhi)
- Four universal purities (Tib. རྣམ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་དག་པ་, Wyl. rnam pa thams cad dag pa)
- Ten powers (Tib. དབང་བཅུ་, Wyl. dbang bcu)
- Ten strengths (Tib. སྟོབས་བཅུ་, Wyl. stobs bcu)
- Four fearlessnesses (Tib. མི་འཇིགས་པ་བཞི་)
- Eighteen unshared attributes (Tib. ཆོས་མ་འདྲེས་པ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་)
- Having nothing to guard (Tib. བསྲུང་བ་མེད་པ་, Wyl. bsrung ba med pa)
- Three close mindfulnesses (Tib. དྲན་པ་ཉེ་བར་བཞག་པ་གསུམ་, Wyl. dran pa nye bar bzhag pa gsum)
- Absence of forgetfulness (Tib. བསྙེལ་བ་མི་མངའ་བ་, Wyl. bsnyel ba mi mnga' ba)
- Complete elimination of habitual tendencies (Tib. བག་ཆགས་ཡང་དག་པར་བཅོམ་པ་, Wyl. bag chags yang dag par bcom pa)
- Great compassion (Tib. ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོ་, Wyl. thugs rje chen po)
- Omniscience (Tib. རྣམ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ་ཉིད་, Wyl. rnam pa thams cad mkhyen pa nyid)
Footnotes
- ↑ Based on Mipham Rinpoche's Khenjuk.
Further Reading
- Kangyur Rinpoche, Treasury of Precious Qualities (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2001), 'Appendix 9'.