Ten sciences

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The ten sciences (Tib. རིག་གནས་བཅུ་, rikné chu, Wyl. rig gnas bcu), or fields of knowledge, are:

The five major sciences (Tib. རིག་གནས་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ་, rigné chenpo nga; Wyl. rig gnas chen po lnga)

  1. craftsmanship (Skt. śilpa; Tib. བཟོ་རིག་པ་, Wyl. bzo rig pa)
  2. logic (hetu; Tib. གཏན་ཚིགས་, Wyl. gtan tshigs)
  3. grammar (śabda; Tib. སྒྲ་, Wyl. sgra)
  4. medicine (cikitsā; Tib. གསོ་བ་, Wyl. gso ba)
  5. '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)

  1. synonyms (Skt. abhidhāna; Tib. མངོན་བརྗོད་, Wyl. mngon brjod)
  2. mathematics and astrology (jyotiṣa; Tib. སྐར་རྩིས་, Wyl. skar rtsis)
  3. performance, drama (nāṭaka; Tib. ཟློས་གར་, Wyl. zlos gar)
  4. poetry (kāvya; Tib. སྙན་ངག་, Wyl. snyan ngag)
  5. composition (chanda; Tib. སྡེབ་སྦྱོར་, Wyl. sdeb sbyor)
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