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==The Eight Topics==
==The Eight Topics==
#[[knowledge of all aspects]], [[omniscience]] (Skt. ''Sarvākārajñatā''; Tib. རྣམ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཉིད་, ''nam kun khyen nyi'' or [[རྣམ་མཁྱེན་]], "namkhyen")<br>
#[[knowledge of all aspects]], [[omniscience]] (Skt. ''Sarvākārajñatā''; Tib. རྣམ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཉིད་, ''nam kun khyen nyi'' or [[རྣམ་མཁྱེན་]], "namkhyen")
#[[path-knowledge]] (Skt. ''Mārgākārajñatā''; Tib. ལམ་ཤེས་ཉིད་, ''lamshe nyi'' or [[ལམ་ཤེས་]], ''lamshe'')<br>
#[[path-knowledge]] (Skt. ''Mārgākārajñatā''; Tib. ལམ་ཤེས་ཉིད་, ''lamshe nyi'' or [[ལམ་ཤེས་]], ''lamshe'')
#[[base-knowledge]], knowledge of the bases, knowledge of the foundation (Skt. ''vastujñāna''; Tib. [[གཞི་ཤེས་]], ''zhishe'') but also all-knowledge (Skt. ''Sarvajñatā''; Tib. ཐམས་ཅད་ཤེས་པ་ཉིད་, ''tamche shepa nyi'')<br>
#[[base-knowledge]], knowledge of the bases, knowledge of the foundation (Skt. ''vastujñāna''; Tib. [[གཞི་ཤེས་]], ''zhishe'') but also all-knowledge (Skt. ''Sarvajñatā''; Tib. ཐམས་ཅད་ཤེས་པ་ཉིད་, ''tamche shepa nyi'')
#[[complete application of all aspects]], application of the realization of all aspects (Skt. ''Sarvākārābhisambodha''; Tib. རྣམ་ཀུན་མངོན་རྫོགས་རྟོགས་པ་ but also [[རྣམ་རྫོགས་སྦྱོར་བ་]], ''namdzog jorwa'')<br>
#[[complete application of all aspects]], application of the realization of all aspects (Skt. ''Sarvākārābhisambodha''; Tib. རྣམ་ཀུན་མངོན་རྫོགས་རྟོགས་པ་ but also [[རྣམ་རྫོགས་སྦྱོར་བ་]], ''namdzog jorwa'')
#[[culminating application]], application when reaching the peak (Skt. ''Murdhābhisamaya''; Tib. [[རྩེ་མོར་སྦྱོར་བ་]], ''tsemor jorwa'')<br>
#[[culminating application]], application when reaching the peak (Skt. ''Murdhābhisamaya''; Tib. [[རྩེ་མོར་སྦྱོར་བ་]], ''tsemor jorwa'')
#[[progressive application]], gradual training, gradual application of the bodhisattva path (Skt. ''Anupurvābhisamaya''; Tib. [[མཐར་གྱིས་པའི་སྦྱོར་བ་]], ''thar gyi jorwa'')<br>
#[[progressive application]], gradual training, gradual application of the bodhisattva path (Skt. ''Anupurvābhisamaya''; Tib. [[མཐར་གྱིས་པའི་སྦྱོར་བ་]], ''thar gyi jorwa'')
#[[instantaneous application]], momentary training (Skt. ''Ekakṣanābhisamaya''; Tib. [[སྐད་ཅིག་མའི་སྦྱོར་བ་]], ''kechigme jorwa'')<br>
#[[instantaneous application]], momentary training (Skt. ''Ekakṣanābhisamaya''; Tib. [[སྐད་ཅིག་མའི་སྦྱོར་བ་]], ''kechigme jorwa'')<br>
#[[dharmakaya]] (Skt. ''dharmakāya'' but also ''Dharmakāyābhisambodha''; [[Wyl.]] ''chos sku''; Tib. [[ཆོས་སྐུ་]], ''chö ku'')
#[[dharmakaya]] (Skt. ''dharmakāya'' but also ''Dharmakāyābhisambodha''; Tib. [[ཆོས་སྐུ་]], ''chö ku'', Wyl. ''chos sku'')
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Haribhadra, author of the most famous commentary on the Abhisamayalankara

Eight topics (Skt. aṣṭa padārtha; Tib. དངོས་པོ་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. dngos po brgyad) or the eight clear realizations (Tib. མངོན་རྟོགས་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. mngon rtogs brgyad) — the Abhisamayalankara is divided into eight topics:

The Eight Topics

  1. knowledge of all aspects, omniscience (Skt. Sarvākārajñatā; Tib. རྣམ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཉིད་, nam kun khyen nyi or རྣམ་མཁྱེན་, "namkhyen")
  2. path-knowledge (Skt. Mārgākārajñatā; Tib. ལམ་ཤེས་ཉིད་, lamshe nyi or ལམ་ཤེས་, lamshe)
  3. base-knowledge, knowledge of the bases, knowledge of the foundation (Skt. vastujñāna; Tib. གཞི་ཤེས་, zhishe) but also all-knowledge (Skt. Sarvajñatā; Tib. ཐམས་ཅད་ཤེས་པ་ཉིད་, tamche shepa nyi)
  4. complete application of all aspects, application of the realization of all aspects (Skt. Sarvākārābhisambodha; Tib. རྣམ་ཀུན་མངོན་རྫོགས་རྟོགས་པ་ but also རྣམ་རྫོགས་སྦྱོར་བ་, namdzog jorwa)
  5. culminating application, application when reaching the peak (Skt. Murdhābhisamaya; Tib. རྩེ་མོར་སྦྱོར་བ་, tsemor jorwa)
  6. progressive application, gradual training, gradual application of the bodhisattva path (Skt. Anupurvābhisamaya; Tib. མཐར་གྱིས་པའི་སྦྱོར་བ་, thar gyi jorwa)
  7. instantaneous application, momentary training (Skt. Ekakṣanābhisamaya; Tib. སྐད་ཅིག་མའི་སྦྱོར་བ་, kechigme jorwa)
  8. dharmakaya (Skt. dharmakāya but also Dharmakāyābhisambodha; Tib. ཆོས་སྐུ་, chö ku, Wyl. chos sku)

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