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'''Seven aspects of union''' (Tib. ''khajor yenlak dün'', ཁ་སྦྱོར་ཡན་ལག་བདུན་ , [[Wyl.]] ''kha sbyor yan lag bdun'') — the seven qualities of a [[sambhogakaya]] [[buddha]]. Jigme Lingpa quotes Acharya [[Vagishvarakirti]] in his auto-commentary on the [[Treasury of Precious Qualities]], who lists them as:  
'''Seven aspects of union''' (Tib. ཁ་སྦྱོར་ཡན་ལག་བདུན་, ''khajor yenlak dün'', [[Wyl.]] ''kha sbyor yan lag bdun'') — the seven qualities of a [[sambhogakaya]] [[buddha]]. [[Jigme Lingpa]] quotes Acharya [[Vagishvarakirti]] in his auto-commentary on the ''[[Treasury of Precious Qualities]]'', who lists them as:
 
*complete enjoyment (ལོངས་སྤྱོད་རྫོགས་, ''longchö dzog'', ''longs spyod rdzogs''),  
*complete enjoyment (Tib. ''longchö dzog'', ལོངས་སྤྱོད་རྫོགས་, ''longs spyod rdzogs''),  
*union (ཁ་སྦྱོར་, ''khajor'', ''kha sbyor''),  
*union (Tib. ''khajor'',  ཁ་སྦྱོར་ , ''kha sbyor''),  
*great bliss (བདེ་བ་ཆེན་པོ་, ''dewa chenpo'', ''bde ba chen po''),  
*great bliss (Tib. ''dewa chenpo'',  བདེ་བ་ཆེན་པོ་  , ''bde ba chen po''),  
*absence of a self-nature (རང་བཞིན་མེད་པ་, ''rang shyin mépa'', ''rang bzhin med pa''),  
*absence of a self-nature (Tib. ''rang shyin mépa'',  རང་བཞིན་མེད་པ་, ''rang bzhin med pa''),  
*presence of compassion (སྙིང་རྗེས་ཡོངས་སུ་གང་བ་, ''nyingjé yong su gangwa'', ''snying rjes yongs su gang ba''),  
*presence of compassion (Tib. ''nyingjé yong su gangwa'',  སྙིང་རྗེས་ཡོངས་སུ་གང་བ་, ''snying rjes yongs su gang ba''),  
*being uninterrupted (རྒྱུན་མི་ཆད་པ་, ''gyün michepa'', ''rgyun mi chad pa'') and  
*being uninterrupted (Tib. ''gyün michepa'',  རྒྱུན་མི་ཆད་པ་, ''rgyun mi chad pa'') and  
*being unceasing (འགོག་པ་མེད་པ་, ''gokpa mépa'', ''‘gog pa med pa'').
*being unceasing (Tib. ''gokpa mépa'', འགོག་པ་མེད་པ་, ''‘gog pa med pa'').


==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==

Revision as of 12:48, 9 March 2020

Seven aspects of union (Tib. ཁ་སྦྱོར་ཡན་ལག་བདུན་, khajor yenlak dün, Wyl. kha sbyor yan lag bdun) — the seven qualities of a sambhogakaya buddha. Jigme Lingpa quotes Acharya Vagishvarakirti in his auto-commentary on the Treasury of Precious Qualities, who lists them as:

  • complete enjoyment (ལོངས་སྤྱོད་རྫོགས་, longchö dzog, longs spyod rdzogs),
  • union (ཁ་སྦྱོར་, khajor, kha sbyor),
  • great bliss (བདེ་བ་ཆེན་པོ་, dewa chenpo, bde ba chen po),
  • absence of a self-nature (རང་བཞིན་མེད་པ་, rang shyin mépa, rang bzhin med pa),
  • presence of compassion (སྙིང་རྗེས་ཡོངས་སུ་གང་བ་, nyingjé yong su gangwa, snying rjes yongs su gang ba),
  • being uninterrupted (རྒྱུན་མི་ཆད་པ་, gyün michepa, rgyun mi chad pa) and
  • being unceasing (འགོག་པ་མེད་པ་, gokpa mépa, ‘gog pa med pa).

Further Reading