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'''Dignity''' (Skt. ''hri''; Tib. ངོ་ཚ་ཤེས་པ་ | '''Dignity''' (Skt. ''hri''; Tib. [[ངོ་ཚ་ཤེས་པ་]], ''ngotsa shepa'', [[Wyl.]] ''ngo tsha shes pa'') — one of the [[fifty-one mental states]] defined in [[Abhidharma]] literature. According to the ''[[Compendium of Abhidharma]]'', it belongs to the subgroup of the [[eleven virtuous states]]. It is also one of the [[seven noble riches]]. | ||
==Definitions== | ==Definitions== | ||
In the [[Khenjuk]], [[Mipham Rinpoche]] says | In the ''[[Khenjuk]]'', [[Mipham Rinpoche]] says: | ||
*Tib. ངོ་ཚ་ཤེས་པ་ནི་བདག་གམ་ཆོས་རྒྱུ་མཚན་དུ་བྱས་ཏེ་ཁ་ན་མ་ཐོ་བ་ལ་འཛེམ་པ་ཉེས་སྤྱོད་སྡོམ་པའི་རྟེན་བྱེད་པའི་ལས་ཅན་ནོ། | |||
*Dignity is the attitude of refraining from unwholesome actions (or misdeeds) on account of one's own | *Dignity is the attitude of refraining from unwholesome actions (or misdeeds) on account of one's own [conscience] and [trust in] the Dharma. Its function is to support one in refraining from [[negative actions]]. ([[Rigpa Translations]]) | ||
*Dignity is shunning misdeeds either because of oneself or the Dharma. Its function is to support one in refraining from negative actions. ([[Erik Pema Kunsang]]) | *Dignity is shunning misdeeds either because of oneself or the Dharma. Its function is to support one in refraining from negative actions. ([[Erik Pema Kunsang]]) | ||
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*Self-respect ([[Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche]]) | *Self-respect ([[Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche]]) | ||
*Sense of shame or personal integrity ([[PAD|Padmakara]]) | *Sense of shame or personal integrity ([[PAD|Padmakara]]) | ||
*Shame (David Karma Choepel, Tony Duff | *Shame (David Karma Choepel, Tony Duff) | ||
*Conscience (Gyurme Dorje) | *Conscience (Gyurme Dorje) | ||
[[Category:Abhidharma]] | [[Category:Abhidharma]] | ||
[[Category:Fifty-one mental states]] | [[Category:Fifty-one mental states]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Eleven virtuous states]] | ||
Latest revision as of 04:37, 6 April 2018
Dignity (Skt. hri; Tib. ངོ་ཚ་ཤེས་པ་, ngotsa shepa, Wyl. ngo tsha shes pa) — one of the fifty-one mental states defined in Abhidharma literature. According to the Compendium of Abhidharma, it belongs to the subgroup of the eleven virtuous states. It is also one of the seven noble riches.
Definitions
In the Khenjuk, Mipham Rinpoche says:
- Tib. ངོ་ཚ་ཤེས་པ་ནི་བདག་གམ་ཆོས་རྒྱུ་མཚན་དུ་བྱས་ཏེ་ཁ་ན་མ་ཐོ་བ་ལ་འཛེམ་པ་ཉེས་སྤྱོད་སྡོམ་པའི་རྟེན་བྱེད་པའི་ལས་ཅན་ནོ།
- Dignity is the attitude of refraining from unwholesome actions (or misdeeds) on account of one's own [conscience] and [trust in] the Dharma. Its function is to support one in refraining from negative actions. (Rigpa Translations)
- Dignity is shunning misdeeds either because of oneself or the Dharma. Its function is to support one in refraining from negative actions. (Erik Pema Kunsang)
Alternative Translations
- Self-respect (Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche)
- Sense of shame or personal integrity (Padmakara)
- Shame (David Karma Choepel, Tony Duff)
- Conscience (Gyurme Dorje)