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'''The ten topics of knowledge''' (Tib. མཁས་པར་བྱ་བའི་གནས་བཅུ་, [[Wyl.]] ''mkhas par bya ba'i gnas bcu'') are listed in the ''[[Madhyantavibhanga]]'' of [[Maitreya]]:

#[[Aggregates]] (Tib. [[ཕུང་པོ་]]; Skt. ''skandha'')
#[[Eighteen dhatus|Elements]] (Tib.[[ཁམས་]]; Skt. ''dhātu'')
#[[Twelve ayatanas|Sense sources]] (Tib. [[སྐྱེ་མཆེད་]]; Skt. ''āyatana'')
#[[Dependent origination]] (Tib. [[རྟེན་འབྲེལ་]]; Skt. ''pratītyasamutpāda'')
#The correct and the incorrect (Tib. གནས་དང་གནས་མ་ཡིན་པ་; Skt. ''sthānāsthāna'')
#The [[faculties]] (Tib. [[དབང་པོ་]]; Skt. ''indriya'')
#Time (Tib. [[དུས་]]; Skt. ''adhvan'')
#The truths (i.e., the [[four noble truths]] and [[two truths]]) (Tib. བདེན་པ་; Skt. ''satya'')
#The [[vehicle]]s (Tib. [[ཐེག་པ་]]; Skt. ''yāna'')
#The [[conditioned]] and the [[unconditioned]] (Tib. འདུས་བྱས་དང་འདུས་མ་བྱས་; Skt. ''saṁskṛta-asaṁskṛta'')

==Antidotes to the Ten Views of Self==
These ten are said to be '''antidotes to [[ten views of the self]]'''. As the root text of the ''Madhyantavibhanga'' says:

:Single, the cause and consumer,
:The agent and in control,
:The owner and permanent,
:Afflicted and then purified,
:Possessor of yoga, unfree and then freed—
:These are ten views of self.<ref>གཅིག་དང་རྒྱུ་དང་ཟ་བ་དང་།<br>
བྱེད་པ་དང་ནི་དབང་བསྒྱུར་དང་།<br>
བདག་པོའི་དོན་དང་རྟག་པ་དང་།<br>
ཉོན་མོངས་པ་དང་དག་པའི་གནས།<br>
རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཅན་དང་མ་གྲོལ་གྲོལ།<br>
འདི་དག་ལ་ནི་བདག་ཏུ་ལྟ།</ref>

==Other Similar Lists==
In the ''[[Avatamsaka Sutra]]'' '''six topics of knowledge''' are mentioned, i.e. [[aggregates]], elements, sense sources, [[dependent origination]] (known collectively as the four gates to the truth), the correct and the incorrect and the truths.

In the ''[[Sutra of Inexhaustible Intelligence]]'' there is mention of '''eight topics''': time is mentioned instead of the correct and the incorrect, and the vehicles and the conditioned and unconditioned are also mentioned.

==Notes==
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==Further Reading==
These ten topics are explained in detail in [[Mipham Rinpoche]]'s ''[[Khenjuk]]''.

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