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'''Eight perfect freedoms''' (Tib. རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ་བརྒྱད་, ''nampar tarpa gyé'', [[Wyl.]] ''rnam par thar pa brgyad'') — part of the [[twenty-one sets of immaculate qualities]]. In this context, freedom is understood as a state of mind totally divested of the obscurations that block the subsequently listed realizations.<ref>Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Kangyur Rinpoche and Jigme Lingpa, ''Treasury of Precious Qualities'': Book One'' (Shambhala, revised edition 2011), note 299.</ref>

#the perfect freedom of form observing form (Tib. གཟུགས་ཅན་གཟུགས་ལ་ལྟ་བའི་རྣམ་ཐར་, ''zukchen zuk la tawé namtar'', Wyl. ''gzugs can gzugs la lta ba'i rnam thar'')  
#the perfect freedom of the formless observing form (Tib.  གཟུགས་མེད་གཟུགས་ལ་ལྟ་བའི་རྣམ་ཐར་, ''zukmé zuk la tawé namtar'', Wyl. ''gzugs med gzugs la lta ba'i rnam thar'')
#the perfect freedom of observing beauty (Tib. སྡུག་པའི་རྣམ་ཐར་, ''dukpé namtar'', Wyl. ''sdug pa’i rnam thar'')
#the perfect freedom of infinite space (Tib. ནམ་མཁའ་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ཀྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་,  ''namkha kyemché kyi namtar'', Wyl. ''nam mkha' skye mched kyi rnam thar'')
#the perfect freedom of infinite consciousness (Tib. རྣམ་ཤེས་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ཀྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་,  ''namshé kyemché kyi namtar'', Wyl. ''rnam shes skye mched kyi rnam thar'')
#the perfect freedom of nothing whatsoever (Tib. ཅི་ཡང་མེད་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ཀྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་ , ''chiyang mé kyemché kyi namtar'', Wyl. ''ci yang med skye mched kyi rnam thar'')
#the perfect freedom of neither presence nor absence of perception (Tib. འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ཀྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་ , ''dushé mé min kyemché kyi namtar'', Wyl. '''du shes med min skye mched kyi rnam thar'')
#the perfect freedom of [[cessation]] (Tib. འགོག་པའི་རྣམ་ཐར་, ''gokpé namtar'', Wyl. ''gog pa’i rnam thar''), alternatively; the perfect freedom of cessation of conception and sensation (Tib. འདུ་ཤེས་དང་ཚོར་བ་འགོག་པའི་རྣམ་ཐར་, ''dushé dang tsorwa gokpé namtar'', Wyl.  ''du shes dang tshor ba 'gog pa'i rnam thar'')

==Groupings==
Of these eight perfect freedoms, three concern the powers of miraculous manifestation and transformation (1-3), four refer to the [[Formless realm|formless states]] (4-7), and one to cessation (8).<ref>Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Kangyur Rinpoche and Jigme Lingpa, ''Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One'' (Shambhala, revised edition 2011), Appendix 9.</ref>

==Alternative Translations==
*eight complete freedoms
*eight emancipations

==Further Reading==
*Longchen Yeshe Dorje, [[Kangyur Rinpoche]] and [[Jigme Lingpa]], ''[[Treasury of Precious Qualities]]: Book One'' (Shambhala, revised edition 2011), note 299.

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