Ten factors that illustrate omniscience

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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 (Tib. སེམས་བསྐྱེད་པ་, semkyepa), which is the nature of the mahayana path,
  2. The spiritual instructions (Tib. གདམས་ངག་, damngag), which are the method for attaining its objective,
  3. The four aspects of definite separation (Tib. ངེས་འབྱེད་ཡན་ལག་རྣམ་བཞི་, ngeje yenlag nam shi), which come about as a result of the instructions,
  4. The Buddha potential, the nature of the dharmadhatu (Tib. ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་, chö ki ying kyi rangshin) , which is the basis for attaining accomplishment (Tib. སྒྲུབ་པའི་རྟེན་གྱུར་པ་, drubpe tengyurpa") by practising the instructions unerringly,
  5. The objects of focus (Tib. དམིགས་པ, migpa) for the practice,
  6. The objective (Tib. ཆེད་, che) of the practice,
  7. Armour-like (Tib. གོ་ཆ་, gocha) practice,
  8. [Accomplishing the] activities of engagement (Tib. འཇུག་པའི་བྱ་བ་, jugpe jawa)
  9. [The practice of] accumulation (Tib. ཚོགས, tsog) and
  10. [The practice of] definite emergence (Tib. ངེས་པར་འབྱུང་, ngepar jung).