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''' | The '''path of seeing''' (Tib. ''tonglam''; [[Wyl.]] ''mthong lam'') is the third of the [[five paths]]. It is divided into [[sixteen moments]]. | ||
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Revision as of 17:01, 21 May 2009
The path of seeing (Tib. tonglam; Wyl. mthong lam) is the third of the five paths. It is divided into sixteen moments.
- “It is called the path of seeing because it is here that one first sees the supermundane wisdom of the noble ones.”
- The Path of Seeing is the point of full realization of the Four Noble Truths.
- At the path of seeing one becomes an Arya, or a sublime one. Arya literally means noble or sublime. The Tibetan word for Arya (pakpa; ‘phags pa) means elevated or exalted, as in elevated above the level of an ordinary, samsaric being.
- The path of seeing marks the point of the first bhumi. The first bhumi also includes post-meditation. Gyaltsab Darma Rinchen claimed that there is post-meditation on the path of seeing, but other scholars, such as Gorampa, claim that it is taken up entirely with meditative equipoise.