Eight periods of a human life

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The eight periods of a human life (Tib. མི་ཚེའི་དུས་བརྒྱད་, mitsé dü gyé; Wyl. mi tshe'i dus brgyad) are:

  1. The time of dwelling in the womb (Tib. མངལ་ན་གནས་པའི་དུས་, ngal na nepé dü; Wyl. mngal na gnas pa’i dus)
  2. The time of birth (Tib. བཙས་པའི་དུས་, tsepé dü; Wyl. btsas pa’i dus)
  3. The time of infancy (Tib. བྱིས་པའི་དུས་, jipé dü; Wyl. byis pa’i dus)
  4. The time of childhood (Tib. གཞོན་ནུའི་དུས་, shyönnü dü; Wyl. gzhon nu’i dus)
  5. The time of being a young person (Tib. ལང་ཚོའི་དུས་, langtsö dü; Wyl. lang tsho’i dus)
  6. The time of being a mature adult (Tib. དར་ལ་བབ་པའི་དུས་, dar la babpé dü; Wyl. dar la bab pa’i dus)
  7. The time of aging (Tib. རྒས་པའི་དུས་, gepé dü; Wyl. rgas pa’i dus)
  8. The time of infirmity (Tib. འཁོགས་པའི་དུས་, khokpé dü; Wyl. ’khogs pa’i dus)
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