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'''Seven aspects of union''' (Tib. ''kha sbyor yan lag bdun'') | '''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== | |||
*[[Thinley Norbu]], ''A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar'', page 54. | |||
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Latest revision as of 12:49, 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
- Thinley Norbu, A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar, page 54.