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The '''ten sciences''' (Tib. ''rikné chu'') are | The '''ten sciences''' (Tib. ''rikné chu''), or fields of knowledge, are: | ||
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Revision as of 19:56, 14 May 2009
The ten sciences (Tib. rikné chu), or fields of knowledge, are:
The five major sciences (Tib. རིག་གནས་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ་, rigné chenpo nga; Wyl. rig gnas chen po lnga)
- craftsmanship (Skt. śilpa; Tib. བཟོ་རིག་པ་, Wyl. bzo rig pa)
- logic (hetu; Tib. གཏན་ཚིགས་, Wyl. gtan tshigs)
- grammar (śabda; Tib. སྒྲ་, Wyl. sgra)
- medicine (cikitsā; Tib. གསོ་བ་, Wyl. gso ba)
- 'Inner science' or Dharma (Tib. ནང་དོན་རིག་པ་, Wyl. nang don rig pa)
and
The five minor sciences (Tib. རིག་གནས་ཆུང་ལྔ་, rigné chung nga; Wyl. rig gnas chung lnga)
- synonyms (Skt. abhidhāna; Tib. མངོན་བརྗོད་, Wyl. mngon brjod)
- mathematics and astrology (jyotiṣa; Tib. སྐར་རྩིས་, Wyl. skar rtsis)
- performance, drama (nāṭaka; Tib. ཟློས་གར་, Wyl. zlos gar)
- poetry (kāvya; Tib. སྙན་ངག་, Wyl. snyan ngag)
- composition (chanda; Tib. སྡེབ་སྦྱོར་, Wyl. sdeb sbyor)