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One speaks of faith, which is like a river; discipline which is like a flower; generosity, which is like a jewel; learning, which is like an ocean; samaya, which is like a crystal; a sense of moral shame, which is undeceiving like one's own parents; and wisdom, which is like the sun.<ref>From notes to ''Meditation at Tigress Fort'' from the ''Life of Shabkar''.</ref> The direct translation of this term is the Seven Riches of an [[Arya]]. | One speaks of faith, which is like a river; discipline which is like a flower; generosity, which is like a jewel; learning, which is like an ocean; samaya, which is like a crystal; a sense of moral shame, which is undeceiving like one's own parents; and wisdom, which is like the sun.<ref>From notes to ''Meditation at Tigress Fort'' from the ''Life of Shabkar''.</ref> The direct translation of this term is the Seven Riches of an [[Arya]]. | ||
==Quotations== | |||
{{tibquote|དད་དང་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཐོས་དང་གཏོང་བ་དང་། །<br/> | |||
དྲི་མེད་ངོ་ཚ་ཤེས་དང་ཁྲེལ་ཡོད་དང་།<br/> | |||
ཤེས་རབ་ནོར་བདུན་ལགས་པར་ཐུབ་པས་གསུངས། །<br/> | |||
ནོར་གཞན་ཕལ་དོན་མ་མཆིས་རྟོགས་མཛོད། །<br/>}} | |||
Faith and discipline, learning, generosity,<br/> | |||
An untainted sense of shame and decency,<br/> | |||
And wisdom, are the seven riches spoken of by the Buddha.<br/> | |||
Know, other worldly riches have no value.<br/> | |||
:::[[Nagarjuna]], ''[[Letter to a Friend]]'', verse 32 | |||
==Alternative Versions== | ==Alternative Versions== | ||
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*5. samaya | *5. samaya | ||
*6. a sense of ethical conscience in regard to oneself<ref>''Ibid.'' </ref> | *6. a sense of ethical conscience in regard to oneself<ref>''Ibid.'' </ref> | ||
*5. a sense of '''shame''' with respect to oneself (Padmakara) | |||
*6. a sense of '''decency''' with regard to others (Padmakara) | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 12:50, 15 December 2017
Seven noble riches (Tib. འཕགས་པའི་ནོར་བདུན་, pakpé nor dün, Wyl. ‘phags pa’i nor bdun) —
- faith
- discipline
- generosity (Tib. tongwa; Wyl. gtong ba)
- learning (Tib. ཐོས་པ་; Wyl. thos pa)
- dignity
- propriety
- wisdom (Tib. sherab; Wyl. shes rab)
One speaks of faith, which is like a river; discipline which is like a flower; generosity, which is like a jewel; learning, which is like an ocean; samaya, which is like a crystal; a sense of moral shame, which is undeceiving like one's own parents; and wisdom, which is like the sun.[1] The direct translation of this term is the Seven Riches of an Arya.
Quotations
དད་དང་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཐོས་དང་གཏོང་བ་དང་། །
དྲི་མེད་ངོ་ཚ་ཤེས་དང་ཁྲེལ་ཡོད་དང་།
ཤེས་རབ་ནོར་བདུན་ལགས་པར་ཐུབ་པས་གསུངས། །
Faith and discipline, learning, generosity,
An untainted sense of shame and decency,
And wisdom, are the seven riches spoken of by the Buddha.
Know, other worldly riches have no value.
- Nagarjuna, Letter to a Friend, verse 32
Alternative Versions
- 5. a sense of moral shame in front of others
- 5. samaya
- 6. a sense of ethical conscience in regard to oneself[2]
- 5. a sense of shame with respect to oneself (Padmakara)
- 6. a sense of decency with regard to others (Padmakara)