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''' | The '''eighteen unshared qualities of a [[buddha]]''' (Skt. ''aṣṭādaśāveṇikabuddhadharma''; Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་མ་འདྲེས་པ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. ''sangs rgyas kyi chos ma ‘dres pa bco brgyad'') according to the [[Abhidharma]] tradition, are: | ||
*1-10 | *1-10: the [[ten powers]] | ||
*11-14 | *11-14: the [[four fearlessnesses]] | ||
*15-17 | *15-17: the [[three close-mindfulnesses]] | ||
*18 | *18: great [[compassion]]<ref>''Tibetan-English Dictionary of Buddhist Terminology'', Tsepak Rigdzin, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives.</ref> | ||
There is another list of eighteen unshared qualities according to the sutras where these eighteen―the special features of a buddha’s physical state, realization, activity, and wisdom that are not shared by ordinary beings―are generally given as: | |||
#their actions are consistent; | |||
#their speech is not jarring; | |||
#they are not forgetful; | |||
#their state of cessation is not a state of indifference; | |||
#their perception is not discursive; | |||
#their minds are always composed; | |||
#their diligence never wanes; | |||
#their recollection never wanes; | |||
#their effort never wanes; | |||
#their meditative absorption never wanes; | |||
#their insight never wanes; | |||
#their liberation never wanes; | |||
#their physical actions are guided by wisdom and are in alignment with wisdom; | |||
#their verbal actions are guided by wisdom and are in alignment with wisdom; | |||
#their mental actions are guided by wisdom and are in alignment with wisdom; | |||
#their wisdom vision is unobstructed and unaffected by the past; | |||
#their wisdom vision is unobstructed and unaffected by the future; | |||
#their wisdom vision is unobstructed and unaffected by the present. <ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
<small><references/></small> | <small><references/></small> | ||
==Alternative Translations== | |||
*Eighteen distinctive qualities (Padmakara Translation Group) | |||
*Eighteen unique qualities (Dharmachakra Translation Committee) | |||
==Internal Links== | ==Internal Links== | ||
Latest revision as of 13:07, 9 July 2022
The eighteen unshared qualities of a buddha (Skt. aṣṭādaśāveṇikabuddhadharma; Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་མ་འདྲེས་པ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. sangs rgyas kyi chos ma ‘dres pa bco brgyad) according to the Abhidharma tradition, are:
- 1-10: the ten powers
- 11-14: the four fearlessnesses
- 15-17: the three close-mindfulnesses
- 18: great compassion[1]
There is another list of eighteen unshared qualities according to the sutras where these eighteen―the special features of a buddha’s physical state, realization, activity, and wisdom that are not shared by ordinary beings―are generally given as:
- their actions are consistent;
- their speech is not jarring;
- they are not forgetful;
- their state of cessation is not a state of indifference;
- their perception is not discursive;
- their minds are always composed;
- their diligence never wanes;
- their recollection never wanes;
- their effort never wanes;
- their meditative absorption never wanes;
- their insight never wanes;
- their liberation never wanes;
- their physical actions are guided by wisdom and are in alignment with wisdom;
- their verbal actions are guided by wisdom and are in alignment with wisdom;
- their mental actions are guided by wisdom and are in alignment with wisdom;
- their wisdom vision is unobstructed and unaffected by the past;
- their wisdom vision is unobstructed and unaffected by the future;
- their wisdom vision is unobstructed and unaffected by the present. [2]
References
Alternative Translations
- Eighteen distinctive qualities (Padmakara Translation Group)
- Eighteen unique qualities (Dharmachakra Translation Committee)