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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> |
| − | :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> |
| − | :3) discriminating awareness wisdom<br> | + | :3) [[discriminating awareness wisdom]]<br> |
| − | Liberation of:<br> | + | [[Liberation]] of:<br> |
| − | :4) attachment, the [[emotional obscurations]]<br> | + | :4) [[attachment]], the [[emotional obscurations]]<br> |
| − | :5) hindrance, the [[cognitive obscurations]]<br> | + | :5) [[hindrance]], the [[cognitive obscurations]]<br> |
| − | :6) the inferior – the obscurations of the [[shravaka]]s and [[pratyekabuddha]]s<br> | + | :6) the {{Wiki|inferior}} – the [[obscurations]] of the [[shravaka]]s and [[pratyekabuddha]]s<br> |
And | And | ||
| − | :7) knowledge; and | + | :7) [[knowledge]]; and |
| − | :8) liberation.<noinclude> | + | :8) [[liberation]].<noinclude> |
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Revision as of 18:33, 8 March 2015
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.
