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Latest revision as of 08:54, 14 September 2023
The eleven virtuous states (Skt. ekadaśa kuśala; Tib. དགེ་བའི་སེམས་བྱུང་བཅུ་གཅིག་, gewé semjung chuchik, Wyl. dge ba’i sems byung bcu gcig) are a category of mental states among the fifty-one mental states, so-called because they are virtuous states of mind or factors that can act as antidotes against destructive emotions. They are:
- Faith (Skt. śraddhā; Tib. དད་པ་)
- Dignity (Skt. hri; Tib. ངོ་ཚ་ཤེས་པ་)
- Propriety (Skt. apatrāpya; Tib. ཁྲེལ་ཡོད་པ་)
- Nonattachment (Skt. alobha; Tib. མ་ཆགས་པ་)
- Nonaggression (Skt. adveṣa; Tib. ཞེས་སྡང་མེད་པ་)
- Nondelusion (Skt. amoha; Tib. གཏི་མུག་མེད་པ་)
- Diligence (Skt. vīrya; Tib. བརྩོན་འགྲུས་)
- Pliancy or flexibility (Skt. praśrabdhi; Tib. ཤིན་ཏུ་སྦྱང་བ་)
- Conscientiousness (Skt. apramāda; Tib. བག་ཡོད་པ་)
- Equanimity or evenness (Skt. upekṣā; Tib. བཏང་སྙོམས་)
- Nonviolence (Skt. avihiṃsā; Tib. རྣམ་པར་མི་འཚེ་བ་)
Further Reading
- Sthiramati. An Explanation of the Thirty [Stanzas] (Skt. Triṃśikābhāṣya; Wyl. sum cu pa'i bshad pa). In Philippe Cornu, Vasubandhu, Cinq traités sur l'esprit seulement (Paris: Fayard, 2008), pages 227-230.