Ten factors that illustrate omniscience

Ten factors that illustrate omniscience — the first ten of the seventy points covered in the Abhisamayalankara, which illustrate omniscience, the first of the eight topics.

1. The generation of bodhichitta (Skt. bodhicittotpāda, Tib. སེམས་བསྐྱེད་པ་, semkyepa), which is the nature of the mahayana path,
2. The spiritual instructions (Skt. avavāda, Tib. གདམས་ངག་), which are the methods for attaining its objective,
3. The four aspects of insight (Skt. nirvedha-bhāgīya Tib. ངེས་འབྱེད་ཡན་ལག་རྣམ་བཞི་,), which come about as a result of the instructions,
4. The buddha potential, the nature of the dharmadhatu (Skt. gotra Tib. ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་) , which is the basis for attaining accomplishment (Tib. སྒྲུབ་པའི་རྟེན་གྱུར་པ་) by practising the instructions unerringly,
5. The objects of focus (Skt. ālambana, Tib. དམིགས་པ) for the practice,
6. The objective (Skt. uddeśa, Tib. ཆེད་) of the practice,
7. Armour-like (Skt. saṃnāha, Tib. གོ་ཆ་, gocha) practice,
8. (Accomplishing the) activities of engagement (Skt. prastāna, Tib. འཇུག་པའི་བྱ་བ་)
9. (The practice of) accumulation (Skt. saṃbhāra, Tib. ཚོགས) and
10. (The practice of) definite emergence (Skt. niryāṇa, Tib. ངེས་པར་འབྱུང་).