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<noinclude>'''Eight qualities of a buddha''' — </noinclude>according to [[Maitreya]]'s ''[[Uttaratantra Shastra]]'', all of the qualities of a [[buddha]] can be condensed into the [[two-fold benefit]] of self and others, which are further subdivided into [[Eight qualities of a buddha|eight qualities]]:
<noinclude>'''Eight qualities of a buddha''' — </noinclude>according to [[Maitreya]]'s ''[[Uttaratantra Shastra]]'', all of the qualities of a [[buddha]] can be condensed into the [[two-fold benefit]] of self and others, which are further subdivided into [[Eight qualities of a buddha|eight qualities]] (Tib. [[དོན་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ཡོན་ཏན་བརྒྱད་]], [[Wyl.]] ''don gnyis kyi yon tan brgyad'') :


Benefit of self:
Benefit of self:
* 1) self-arisen wisdom
* 1) self-arisen wisdom (Tib. [[སོ་སོ་རང་རིག་]], ''soso rangrik'', Wyl. ''so so rang rig'')
* 2) unconditioned body
* 2) unconditioned (Tib. [[འདུས་མ་བྱས་]], ''dümajé'', Wyl. '''dus ma byas'') body
* 3) spontaneously perfect  
* 3) spontaneously (Tib. [[ལྷུན་གྲུབ་]], ''lhündrub'', Wyl. ''lhun grub'') perfect  


Benefit of others:
Benefit of others:
* 4) wisdom (Skt. ''jñāna''; Tib. ''khyen''; Wyl. ''mkhyen'')
* 4) wisdom (Skt. ''[[jñāna]]''; Tib. [[མཁྱེན་པ་]], ''khyenpa'', Wyl. ''mkhyen pa'')
* 5) love (Skt. ''karuṇā''; Tib. ''tsé''; Wyl. ''brtse'')
* 5) love (Skt. ''karuṇā''; Tib. [[བརྩེ་བ་]], ''tséwa'', Wyl. ''brtse ba'')
* 6) power (Skt. ''śakti''; Tib. ''nüpa''; Wyl. ''nus pa'')  
* 6) power (Skt. ''śakti''; Tib. [[ནུས་པ་]], ''nüpa'', Wyl. ''nus pa'')  


And
And
* 7) the benefit of self (Skt. ''svārtha''; Tib. ''rang dön''; Wyl. ''rang don''), and
* 7) the benefit of self (Skt. ''svārtha''; Tib. [[རང་དོན་]], ''rang dön'', Wyl. ''rang don''), and
* 8) the benefit of others (Skt. ''parārtha''; Tib. ''shyendön''; Wyl. ''gzhan don'').  
* 8) the benefit of others (Skt. ''parārtha''; Tib. [[གཞན་དོན་]], ''shyendön'', Wyl. ''gzhan don'').  


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<noinclude>[[Category:Enumerations]]
[[Category:08-Eight]]</noinclude>
[[Category:08-Eight]]
[[Category:Eight Qualities of Self and Other]]</noinclude>

Latest revision as of 04:11, 7 February 2019

Eight qualities of a buddha — according to Maitreya's Uttaratantra Shastra, all of the qualities of a buddha can be condensed into the two-fold benefit of self and others, which are further subdivided into eight qualities (Tib. དོན་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ཡོན་ཏན་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. don gnyis kyi yon tan brgyad) :

Benefit of self:

Benefit of others:

And