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The '''four perfect knowledges''' (Skt. ''catuḥpratisaṃvid''; Tib. སོ་སོར་ཡང་དག་པ་རིག་པ་བཞི་, [[Wyl.]] ''so so yang dag par rig pa bzhi'') are included within the [[twenty-one sets of immaculate qualities]]. They are:

#perfect knowledge of meaning (Skt. ''artha''; Tib. དོན་སོ་སོར་ཡང་དག་རིག་པ་, Wyl. ''don so sor yang dag rig pa'')
#perfect knowledge of [[Dharma]] (Tib. ཆོས་སོ་སོར་ཡང་དག་རིག་པ་, Wyl. ''chos so sor yang dag rig pa'')
#perfect knowledge of language (Skt. ''nirukti''; Tib.ངེས་ཚིག་སོ་སོར་ཡང་དག་རིག་པ་, Wyl ''nges tshig so sor yang dag rig pa'')
#perfect knowledge of courageous eloquence (Skt. ''pratibhāna''; Tib. སྤོབས་པ་སོ་སོར་ཡང་དག་རིག་པ་, Wyl. ''spobs pa so sor yang dag rig pa'')

In [[Mipham Rinpoche]]'s [[Khenjuk]], these are described as the '''means of maintaining''' the vast and profound teachings, i.e., the [[ten topics of knowledge]] (the vast) and the [[four seals]] (the profound).

In the [[Abhidharma]] tradition, they are part of the [[Thirty-nine qualities exclusive to a buddha|exclusive qualities of a buddha]].

==Alternative Translations==
*Four analytic insights (Andy Rotman)
*Four analytical knowledges (Edward Conze)
*Four correct discriminations (Thomas Doctor)
*Four genuine masteries of specifics
**Genuine mastery of specifics of confident and eloquent expression
*Four specific perfect understandings<ref>''Tibetan-English Dictionary of Buddhist Terminology'', Tsepak Rigdzin, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives.</ref>
#Specific perfect understanding of dharma
#Specific perfect understanding of meaning
#Specific perfect understanding of definitive words
#Specific perfect understanding of confidence

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==Internal Links==
*[[Enlightened qualities]]
*[[Thirty-nine qualities exclusive to a buddha]]


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