Enlightened qualities

Enlightened qualities refers to the qualities of a buddha (Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཡོན་ཏན་, sangye kyi yönten, Wyl. sangs rgyas kyi yon tan). There are different ways of categorizing them:

According to the Abhidharma tradition there are:

• eighteen unshared qualities of a buddha, and also
• thirty-nine qualities exclusive to a buddha.

Whereas according to the Abhisamayalankara, there are:

• twenty-one sets of immaculate qualities.