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'''Eight topics''' (Skt. ''aṣṭa padārtha''; Tib. [[དངོས་པོ་བརྒྱད་]], [[Wyl.]] ''dngos po brgyad'') or the '''eight clear realizations''' (Tib. [[མངོན་རྟོགས་བརྒྱད་]], Wyl. ''mngon rtogs brgyad'') — the ''[[Abhisamayalankara]]'' is divided into eight topics:<br>
'''Eight topics''' (Skt. ''aṣṭa padārtha''; Tib. [[དངོས་པོ་བརྒྱད་]], [[Wyl.]] ''dngos po brgyad'') or the '''eight clear realizations''' (Tib. [[མངོན་རྟོགས་བརྒྱད་]], Wyl. ''mngon rtogs brgyad'') — the ''[[Abhisamayalankara]]'' is divided into eight topics:<br>
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==The eight topics==
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#[[knowledge of all aspects]], [[omniscience]] (Skt. ''Sarvākārajñatā''; Tib. [[རྣམ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཉིད་]], ''nam kun khyen nyi'' or [[རྣམ་མཁྱེན་]], "namkhyen")<br>
#[[knowledge of all aspects]], [[omniscience]] (Skt. ''Sarvākārajñatā''; Tib. [[རྣམ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཉིད་]], ''nam kun khyen nyi'' or [[རྣམ་མཁྱེན་]], "namkhyen")<br>
#[[path-knowledge]] (Skt. ''Mārgākārajñatā''; Tib. [[ལམ་ཤེས་ཉིད་]], ''lamshe nyi'' or [[ལམ་ཤེས་]], ''lamshe'')<br>
#[[path-knowledge]] (Skt. ''Mārgākārajñatā''; Tib. [[ལམ་ཤེས་ཉིད་]], ''lamshe nyi'' or [[ལམ་ཤེས་]], ''lamshe'')<br>

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Haribhadra, author of the most famous commentary on the Abhisamayalankara

Eight topics (Skt. aṣṭa padārtha; Tib. དངོས་པོ་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. dngos po brgyad) or the eight clear realizations (Tib. མངོན་རྟོགས་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. mngon rtogs brgyad) — the Abhisamayalankara is divided into eight topics:

The eight topics

  1. knowledge of all aspects, omniscience (Skt. Sarvākārajñatā; Tib. རྣམ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཉིད་, nam kun khyen nyi or རྣམ་མཁྱེན་, "namkhyen")
  2. path-knowledge (Skt. Mārgākārajñatā; Tib. ལམ་ཤེས་ཉིད་, lamshe nyi or ལམ་ཤེས་, lamshe)
  3. base-knowledge, knowledge of the bases, knowledge of the foundation (Skt. vastujñāna; Tib. གཞི་ཤེས་, zhishe) but also all-knowledge (Skt. Sarvajñatā; Tib. ཐམས་ཅད་ཤེས་པ་ཉིད་, tamche shepa nyi)
  4. complete application of all aspects, application of the realization of all aspects (Skt. Sarvākārābhisambodha; Tib. རྣམ་ཀུན་མངོན་རྫོགས་རྟོགས་པ་ but also རྣམ་རྫོགས་སྦྱོར་བ་, namdzog jorwa)
  5. culminating application, application when reaching the peak (Skt. Murdhābhisamaya; Tib. རྩེ་མོར་སྦྱོར་བ་, tsemor jorwa)
  6. progressive application, gradual training, gradual application of the bodhisattva path (Skt. Anupurvābhisamaya; Tib. མཐར་གྱིས་པའི་སྦྱོར་བ་, thar gyi jorwa)
  7. instantaneous application, momentary training (Skt. Ekakṣanābhisamaya; Tib. སྐད་ཅིག་མའི་སྦྱོར་བ་, kechigme jorwa)
  8. dharmakaya (Skt. dharmakāya but also Dharmakāyābhisambodha; Wyl. chos sku; Tib. ཆོས་སྐུ་, chö ku)


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