Eighty indicative conceptions

Eighty indicative conceptions (Wyl. rang bzhin brgyad cu‘i kun rtog) — various emotional and cognitive states. They are divided into three groups:

• the first group (which are states resulting from anger) has thirty-three,
• the second (which are states resulting from desire) has forty, and
• the third (which are states resulting from ignorance) has seven types of conceptualization.

Alternative Translations

• eighty inherent thought states

Further Reading

• Glossary in Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, Lamp of Mahamudra (Boston & Shaftesbury: Shambhala, 1989), pages 83-84.
• Dalai Lama, Vision of Enlightenment, page 264 and 300.
• Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (revised and updated edition, Harper San Francisco, 2002), 'The Inner Dissolution', page 258.
• Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, Mirror of Mindfulness (Boston & Shaftesbury: Shambhala, 1989), pages 32-34.