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The '''five degenerations''' of the age of strife are | The '''five degenerations''' (Tib. [[སྙིགས་མ་ལྔ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''snyigs ma lnga'', ''nyikma nga'') of the age of strife are: | ||
#degeneration of life-span (Tib. ཚེའི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. ''tshe’i snyigs ma''), the shortening of the length of life; <br> | |||
#degeneration of time (དུས་ཀྱི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. ''dus kyi snyigs ma''), the decline in the quality of things, grain is less savory and nutritious, fails to ripen and so on;<br> | |||
#degeneration of [[disturbing emotions]] (ཉོན་མོངས་ཀྱི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. ''nyon mongs kyi snyigs ma''), the decline in the virtues of householders, negative emotions strive;<br> | |||
#degeneration of views (ལྟ་བའི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. ''lta ba’i snyigs ma''), the decline in the virtues of the ordained [[sangha]], [[Five wrong views|wrong views]] proliferate;<br> | |||
#degeneration of experience (ཉམས་ཀྱི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. ''nyams kyi snyigs ma''), the decline in physical form, intellect, good health and so on. | |||
[[Category: | ==Further Reading== | ||
* ''Guru Yoga'', [[Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]], Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1999, p. 50 | |||
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Latest revision as of 20:33, 10 April 2016
The five degenerations (Tib. སྙིགས་མ་ལྔ་, Wyl. snyigs ma lnga, nyikma nga) of the age of strife are:
- degeneration of life-span (Tib. ཚེའི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. tshe’i snyigs ma), the shortening of the length of life;
- degeneration of time (དུས་ཀྱི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. dus kyi snyigs ma), the decline in the quality of things, grain is less savory and nutritious, fails to ripen and so on;
- degeneration of disturbing emotions (ཉོན་མོངས་ཀྱི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. nyon mongs kyi snyigs ma), the decline in the virtues of householders, negative emotions strive;
- degeneration of views (ལྟ་བའི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. lta ba’i snyigs ma), the decline in the virtues of the ordained sangha, wrong views proliferate;
- degeneration of experience (ཉམས་ཀྱི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. nyams kyi snyigs ma), the decline in physical form, intellect, good health and so on.
Further Reading
- Guru Yoga, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1999, p. 50