Eighty indicative conceptions
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Eighty indicative conceptions (Wyl. rang bzhin brgyad cu‘i kun rtog) — various emotional and cognitive states. They are divided into three groups:
- the first group (which are states resulting from anger) has thirty-three,
- the second (which are states resulting from desire) has forty, and
- the third (which are states resulting from ignorance) has seven types of conceptualization.
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Further Reading
- Glossary in Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, Lamp of Mahamudra (Boston & Shaftesbury: Shambhala, 1989), pages 83-84.
- Dalai Lama, Vision of Enlightenment, page 264 and 300.
- Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (revised and updated edition, Harper San Francisco, 2002), 'The Inner Dissolution', page 258.
- Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, Mirror of Mindfulness (Boston & Shaftesbury: Shambhala, 1989), pages 32-34.
