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'''The four causes that prevent [[arhat]]s from knowing certain things''' (Tib. མི་ཤེས་པའི་རྒྱུ་བཞི་,  Wyl. ''mi shes pa'i rgyu bzhi'') are:

#They '''lack knowledge about distant locations''' (Tib. གནས་ཀྱིས་བསྐལ་པས་མི་ཤེས་པ་, Wyl. ''gnas kyis bskal pas mi shes pa'') , as for example when [[Maudgalyayana]] did not know that his mother had been reborn in the [[buddha field]] called Possessing Light Rays. 
#They also '''lack knowledge about distant times''' (Tib. དུས་ཀྱིས་བསྐལ་པས་མི་ཤེས་པ་, Wyl. ''dus kyis bskal pas mi shes pa'') , as when [[Shariputra]] did not know that the householder Palkyé possessed the seed of [[liberation]]. 
#Nor do they know the '''infinity of results that spring from an infinite number of causes'''.(Tib. རྒྱུ་ཐུག་མེད་ཀྱི་འབྲས་བུ་ཐུག་མེད་མི་ཤེས་པ་, Wyl. ''rgyu thug med kyi 'bras bu thug med mi shes pa'') 
#They '''lack knowledge of the [[Buddha]]’s many qualities''' (Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་རབ་ཏུ་མང་པོ་མི་ཤེས་པ་, Wyl. ''sangs rgyas kyi chos rab tu mang po mi shes pa''); they do not know his [[ten powers]], [[four fearlessnesses]], [[eighteen unshared attributes]] and so on. <ref>*[[Patrul Rinpoche]], ''Preliminary Points To be Explained when Teaching the Buddha's Word or the Treatises'', translated by Adam Pearcey.</ref>

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==Alternative Translations==
*Four cognitive limitations (Padmakara Translation Group)

==Further Reading==
*[[Khenpo Kunzang Palden|Khenpo Kunpal]], ''[[Drops of Nectar|The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech]]'', translated by Padmakara Translation Group. Published by Shambhala. ISBN 978-1-59030-439-6, page 16.

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