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#Time (Skt. ''adhvan'') | #Time (Skt. ''adhvan'') | ||
#The truths (i.e., the [[four noble truths]] and [[two truths]]) (Skt. ''satya'') | #The truths (i.e., the [[four noble truths]] and [[two truths]]) (Skt. ''satya'') | ||
#The | #The [[vehicle]]s (Skt. ''yāna'') | ||
#The [[conditioned]] and the [[unconditioned]] (Skt. ''saṁskṛta-asaṁskṛta'') | #The [[conditioned]] and the [[unconditioned]] (Skt. ''saṁskṛta-asaṁskṛta'') | ||
==Antidotes to the Ten Views of Self== | ==Antidotes to the Ten Views of Self== | ||
These ten are said to be '''antidotes to ten views of the self'''. As the root text of the ''Madhyantavibhanga'' says: | These ten are said to be '''antidotes to [[ten views of the self]]'''. As the root text of the ''Madhyantavibhanga'' says: | ||
:Single, the cause and consumer,<br> | :Single, the cause and consumer,<br> | ||
Revision as of 15:58, 19 February 2012
The ten topics of knowledge (Wyl. mkhas par bya ba'i gnas bcu) are listed in the Madhyantavibhanga of Maitreya:
- Aggregates (Skt. skandha)
- Elements (Skt. dhātu)
- Sense sources (Skt. āyatana)
- Dependent origination (Skt. pratītyasamutpāda)
- The correct and the incorrect (Skt. sthānāsthāna)
- The faculties (Skt. indriya)
- Time (Skt. adhvan)
- The truths (i.e., the four noble truths and two truths) (Skt. satya)
- The vehicles (Skt. yāna)
- The conditioned and the unconditioned (Skt. saṁskṛta-asaṁskṛta)
Antidotes to the Ten Views of Self
These ten are said to be antidotes to ten views of the self. As the root text of the Madhyantavibhanga says:
- Single, the cause and consumer,
- The agent and in control,
- The owner and permanent,
- Afflicted and then purified,
- Possessor of yoga, unfree and then freed--
- These are ten views of self.[1]
Other Similar Lists
In the Avatamsaka Sutra six topics of knowledge are mentioned, i.e. aggregates, elements, sense sources, dependent origination (known collectively as the four gates to the truth), the correct and the incorrect and the truths.
In the Sutra of Inexhaustible Intelligence there is mention of eight topics: time is mentioned instead of the correct and the incorrect, and the vehicles and the conditioned and unconditioned are also mentioned.
Notes
- ↑ gcig dang rgyu dang za ba dang
byed pa dang ni dbang bsgyur dang
bdag po’I don dang rtag pa dang
nyon mongs pa dang dag pa’i gnas
rnal ‘byor can dang ma grol grol
‘di dag la ni bdag tu lta
Further Reading
These ten topics are explained in detail in Mipham Rinpoche's Khenjuk.