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The '''five degenerations''' of the age of strife are:
The '''five degenerations''' of the age of strife are:


#degeneration of life-span (Wyl. ''tshe’i snyigs ma''), the shortening of the length of life; <br>  
#degeneration of life-span (Tib. ཚེའི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. ''tshe’i snyigs ma''), the shortening of the length of life; <br>  
#degeneration of time (Wyl. ''dus kyi snyigs ma''), the decline in the quality of things, grain is less savory and nutritious, fails to ripen and so on;<br>  
#degeneration of time (དུས་ཀྱི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. ''dus kyi snyigs ma''), the decline in the quality of things, grain is less savory and nutritious, fails to ripen and so on;<br>  
#degeneration of [[disturbing emotions]] (Wyl. ''nyon mongs kyi snyigs ma''), the decline in the virtues of householders, negative emotions strive;<br>
#degeneration of [[disturbing emotions]] (ཉོན་མོངས་ཀྱི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. ''nyon mongs kyi snyigs ma''), the decline in the virtues of householders, negative emotions strive;<br>
#degeneration of views (Wyl. ''lta ba’i snyigs ma''), the decline in the virtues of the ordained [[sangha]], [[Five wrong views|wrong views]] proliferate;<br>  
#degeneration of views (ལྟ་བའི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. ''lta ba’i snyigs ma''), the decline in the virtues of the ordained [[sangha]], [[Five wrong views|wrong views]] proliferate;<br>  
#degeneration of experience (Wyl. ''nyams kyi snyigs ma''), the decline in physical form, intellect, good health and so on.
#degeneration of experience (ཉམས་ཀྱི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. ''nyams kyi snyigs ma''), the decline in physical form, intellect, good health and so on.
 
==Further Reading==
* ''Guru Yoga'', [[Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]], Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1999, p. 50


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The five degenerations of the age of strife are:

  1. degeneration of life-span (Tib. ཚེའི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. tshe’i snyigs ma), the shortening of the length of life;
  2. degeneration of time (དུས་ཀྱི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. dus kyi snyigs ma), the decline in the quality of things, grain is less savory and nutritious, fails to ripen and so on;
  3. degeneration of disturbing emotions (ཉོན་མོངས་ཀྱི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. nyon mongs kyi snyigs ma), the decline in the virtues of householders, negative emotions strive;
  4. degeneration of views (ལྟ་བའི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. lta ba’i snyigs ma), the decline in the virtues of the ordained sangha, wrong views proliferate;
  5. degeneration of experience (ཉམས་ཀྱི་སྙིགས་མ་, Wyl. nyams kyi snyigs ma), the decline in physical form, intellect, good health and so on.

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