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<noinclude>'''Eight qualities of a buddha''' — </noinclude>according to [[Maitreya]]'s ''[[Uttaratantra Shastra]]'', all of the qualities of a [[buddha]] can be condensed into the [[two-fold benefit]] of self and others, which are further subdivided into [[Eight qualities of a buddha|eight qualities]]: | <noinclude>'''Eight qualities of a buddha''' — </noinclude>according to [[Maitreya]]'s ''[[Uttaratantra Shastra]]'', all of the qualities of a [[buddha]] can be condensed into the [[two-fold benefit]] of self and others, which are further subdivided into [[Eight qualities of a buddha|eight qualities]] (Tib. [[དོན་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ཡོན་ཏན་བརྒྱད་]], [[Wyl.]] ''don gnyis kyi yon tan brgyad'') : | ||
Benefit of self: | Benefit of self: | ||
* 1) self-arisen wisdom | * 1) self-arisen wisdom (Tib. [[སོ་སོ་རང་རིག་]], ''soso rangrik'', Wyl. ''so so rang rig'') | ||
* 2) unconditioned body | * 2) unconditioned (Tib. [[འདུས་མ་བྱས་]], ''dümajé'', Wyl. '''dus ma byas'') body | ||
* 3) spontaneously perfect | * 3) spontaneously (Tib. [[ལྷུན་གྲུབ་]], ''lhündrub'', Wyl. ''lhun grub'') perfect | ||
Benefit of others: | Benefit of others: | ||
* 4) | * 4) wisdom (Skt. ''[[jñāna]]''; Tib. [[མཁྱེན་པ་]], ''khyenpa'', Wyl. ''mkhyen pa'') | ||
* 5) love (Skt. ''karuṇā''; Tib. '' | * 5) love (Skt. ''karuṇā''; Tib. [[བརྩེ་བ་]], ''tséwa'', Wyl. ''brtse ba'') | ||
* 6) power (Skt. ''śakti''; Tib. ''nüpa'' | * 6) power (Skt. ''śakti''; Tib. [[ནུས་པ་]], ''nüpa'', Wyl. ''nus pa'') | ||
And | And | ||
* 7) the benefit of self (Skt. ''svārtha''; Tib. ''rang dön'' | * 7) the benefit of self (Skt. ''svārtha''; Tib. [[རང་དོན་]], ''rang dön'', Wyl. ''rang don''), and | ||
* 8) the benefit of others (Skt. ''parārtha''; Tib. ''shyendön'' | * 8) the benefit of others (Skt. ''parārtha''; Tib. [[གཞན་དོན་]], ''shyendön'', Wyl. ''gzhan don''). | ||
<noinclude>[[Category:Enumerations]] | <noinclude>[[Category:Enumerations]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:08-Eight]] | ||
[[Category:Eight Qualities of Self and Other]]</noinclude> |
Latest revision as of 04:11, 7 February 2019
Eight qualities of a buddha — according to Maitreya's Uttaratantra Shastra, all of the qualities of a buddha can be condensed into the two-fold benefit of self and others, which are further subdivided into eight qualities (Tib. དོན་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ཡོན་ཏན་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. don gnyis kyi yon tan brgyad) :
Benefit of self:
- 1) self-arisen wisdom (Tib. སོ་སོ་རང་རིག་, soso rangrik, Wyl. so so rang rig)
- 2) unconditioned (Tib. འདུས་མ་བྱས་, dümajé, Wyl. 'dus ma byas) body
- 3) spontaneously (Tib. ལྷུན་གྲུབ་, lhündrub, Wyl. lhun grub) perfect
Benefit of others:
- 4) wisdom (Skt. jñāna; Tib. མཁྱེན་པ་, khyenpa, Wyl. mkhyen pa)
- 5) love (Skt. karuṇā; Tib. བརྩེ་བ་, tséwa, Wyl. brtse ba)
- 6) power (Skt. śakti; Tib. ནུས་པ་, nüpa, Wyl. nus pa)
And