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'''Four powers''' or '''four strengths''' ([[Wyl.]] ''bshags pa'i stobs bzhi'') — the essential elements in the practice of [[confession]].
'''Four powers''' or '''four strengths''' (Tib. བཤགས་པའི་སྟོབས་བཞི་, ''shakpé tob shyi'', [[Wyl.]] ''bshags pa'i stobs bzhi'') — the essential elements in the practice of [[confession]].


#power of support (Wyl. ''rten gyi stobs'')
#power of support (རྟེན་གྱི་སྟོབས་, ''ten gyi tob'';  ''rten gyi stobs'')
#power of regret (Wyl. ''rnam par sun 'byin pa'i stobs'')
#power of regret (ཉེས་བྱས་སུན་འབྱིན་གྱི་སྟོབས་, ''nyejé sünjin gyi tob''; ''nyes byas sun ‘byin gyi stobs'')  
#power of resolve (Wyl. ''nyes pa las slar ldog pa'i stobs'')
#power of resolve (སྡོམ་པའི་སྟོབས་, ''dompé tob''; ''sdom pa’i stobs'')
#power of action as an antidote (Wyl. ''gnyen po kun tu spyod ldog pa'i tobs'')
#power of action as an antidote (གཉེན་པོ་ཀུན་སྤྱོད་ཀྱི་སྟོབས་, ''nyenpo künchö kyi tob''; ''gnyen po kun spyod kyi stobs'')


''The Noble Sutra of the Teaching on the Four Factors'' says:
''The Noble Sutra of the Teaching on the Four Factors'' says:
:O [[Maitreya]], [[bodhisattva]] mahāsattva, if you possess four factors, you will overcome harmful actions that have been committed and accumulated. What are these four? The action of total rejection, the action as remedy, the power of restoration, and the power of support.
:O [[Maitreya]], [[bodhisattva]] mahāsattva, if you possess four factors, you will overcome harmful actions that have been committed and accumulated. What are these four? The action of total rejection, the action as remedy, the power of restoration, and the power of support.<ref>See external links for reference.</ref>
 
==Notes==
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==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==
*[[Patrul Rinpoche]], ''[[The Words of My Perfect Teacher]]'' (Boston: Shambhala, Revised edition, 1998), pages 265-270.  
*[[Patrul Rinpoche]], ''[[The Words of My Perfect Teacher]]'' (Boston: Shambhala, Revised edition, 1998), pages 265-270.  
*[[Khenpo Ngawang Palzang]], ''[[A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher]]'', (Boston: Shambhala, 2004) pages 226-232.
*[[Khenpo Ngawang Palzang]], ''[[A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher]]'', (Boston: Shambhala, 2004) pages 226-232.
==Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha==
*[[Khandro Rinpoche]], [[Bodhgaya]], India, 26 February 2019, pm


==External Links==
==External Links==
*{{LH|words-of-the-buddha/sutra-teaching-four-factors|''The Noble Sūtra of the Teaching on the Four Factors''}}
*{{LH|words-of-the-buddha/sutra-teaching-four-factors|''The Noble Sūtra of the Teaching on the Four Factors''}}
*{{84000|http://read.84000.co/translation/toh249.html|''The Sūtra Teaching the Four Factors''}} 


[[Category:Confession and Purification]]
[[Category:Confession and Purification]]
[[Category:Enumerations]]
[[Category:Enumerations]]
[[Category:04-Four]]
[[Category:04-Four]]

Revision as of 17:01, 17 March 2019

Four powers or four strengths (Tib. བཤགས་པའི་སྟོབས་བཞི་, shakpé tob shyi, Wyl. bshags pa'i stobs bzhi) — the essential elements in the practice of confession.

  1. power of support (རྟེན་གྱི་སྟོབས་, ten gyi tob; rten gyi stobs)
  2. power of regret (ཉེས་བྱས་སུན་འབྱིན་གྱི་སྟོབས་, nyejé sünjin gyi tob; nyes byas sun ‘byin gyi stobs)
  3. power of resolve (སྡོམ་པའི་སྟོབས་, dompé tob; sdom pa’i stobs)
  4. power of action as an antidote (གཉེན་པོ་ཀུན་སྤྱོད་ཀྱི་སྟོབས་, nyenpo künchö kyi tob; gnyen po kun spyod kyi stobs)

The Noble Sutra of the Teaching on the Four Factors says:

O Maitreya, bodhisattva mahāsattva, if you possess four factors, you will overcome harmful actions that have been committed and accumulated. What are these four? The action of total rejection, the action as remedy, the power of restoration, and the power of support.[1]

Notes

  1. See external links for reference.

Further Reading

Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

External Links