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<noinclude>The '''eleven virtuous states''' (Skt. ''ekadaśa kuśala''; [[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:
<noinclude>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:


</noinclude>#[[Faith]] (Skt. ''śraddhā''; Tib. ''dépa''; Wyl. ''dad pa'')
</noinclude>#[[Faith]] (Skt. ''śraddhā''; Tib. [[དད་པ་]])
#[[Dignity]] (Skt. ''hri''; Wyl. ''ngo tsha shes pa'')
#[[Dignity]] (Skt. ''hri''; Tib. [[ངོ་ཚ་ཤེས་པ་]])
#[[Propriety]] (Skt. ''apatrāpya''; Wyl. ''khrel yod pa'')
#[[Propriety]] (Skt. ''apatrāpya''; Tib. [[ཁྲེལ་ཡོད་པ་]])
#Nonattachment (Skt. ''alobha''; Wyl. ''ma chags pa'')
#[[Nonattachment]] (Skt. ''alobha''; Tib. [[མ་ཆགས་པ་]])
#Nonaggression (Skt. ''adveṣa''; Wyl. ''zhes sdang med pa'')
#[[Nonaggression]] (Skt. ''adveṣa''; Tib. [[ཞེས་སྡང་མེད་པ་]])
#Nondelusion (Skt. ''amoha''; Wyl. ''gti mug med pa'')
#[[Nondelusion]] (Skt. ''amoha''; Tib. [[གཏི་མུག་མེད་པ་]])
#[[Diligence]] (Skt. ''vīrya''; Tib. ''tsöndrü''; Wyl. ''brtson ‘grus'')  
#[[Diligence]] (Skt. ''vīrya''; Tib. [[བརྩོན་འགྲུས་]])
#[[Pliancy]] or flexibility (Skt. ''praśrabdhi''; Wyl. ''shin tu sbyang ba'')
#[[Pliancy]] or flexibility (Skt. ''praśrabdhi''; Tib. [[ཤིན་ཏུ་སྦྱང་བ་]])
#[[Conscientiousness]] (Skt. ''apramāda''; Tib. ''bayö''; Wyl. ''bag yod pa'')
#[[Conscientiousness]] (Skt. ''apramāda''; Tib. [[བག་ཡོད་པ་]])
#Evenness or [[Equanimity]] (Skt. ''upekṣā''; Tib. ''tang nyom''; Wyl. ''btang snyoms'')
#[[Equanimity]] or evenness (Skt. ''upekṣā''; Tib. [[བཏང་སྙོམས་]])
#Nonviolence (Skt. ''avihiṃsā''; Wyl. ''rnam par mi ‘tshe ba'')<noinclude>
#[[Nonviolence]] (Skt. ''avihiṃsā''; Tib. [[རྣམ་པར་མི་འཚེ་བ་]])<noinclude>


==Alternative Translations==
==Further Reading==
#confidence
*[[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.
#self-respect/sense of shame
#see [[propriety]]
#detachment
#nonhatred
#nonbewilderment
#see [[diligence]]
#suppleness
#.
#.
#nonharmfulness


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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:

  1. Faith (Skt. śraddhā; Tib. དད་པ་)
  2. Dignity (Skt. hri; Tib. ངོ་ཚ་ཤེས་པ་)
  3. Propriety (Skt. apatrāpya; Tib. ཁྲེལ་ཡོད་པ་)
  4. Nonattachment (Skt. alobha; Tib. མ་ཆགས་པ་)
  5. Nonaggression (Skt. adveṣa; Tib. ཞེས་སྡང་མེད་པ་)
  6. Nondelusion (Skt. amoha; Tib. གཏི་མུག་མེད་པ་)
  7. Diligence (Skt. vīrya; Tib. བརྩོན་འགྲུས་)
  8. Pliancy or flexibility (Skt. praśrabdhi; Tib. ཤིན་ཏུ་སྦྱང་བ་)
  9. Conscientiousness (Skt. apramāda; Tib. བག་ཡོད་པ་)
  10. Equanimity or evenness (Skt. upekṣā; Tib. བཏང་སྙོམས་)
  11. 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.