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ཆུ་བོ་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms
ཆུ་བོ་བཞི།
chu bo bzhi
caturogha
- Term
- Four rivers
- ཆུ་བོ་བཞི།
- chu bo bzhi
- —
This refers to the four torrents of cyclic existence, craving, ignorance, and wrong view.
- Four rivers
- ཆུ་བོ་བཞི།
- chu bo bzhi
- caturogha
Someone who has “crossed the four rivers” is awakened. The four rivers are (1) the river of desire, (2) the river of existence, (3) the river of beliefs, and (4) the river of ignorance.
- Four rivers
- ཆུ་བོ་བཞི།
- chu bo bzhi
- caturogha
- caturaugha
The same as the four āsrava (“outflows” or “contaminants”), namely (1) sensual desire, (2) conditioned existence, (3) wrong views, and (4) ignorance; also refers to birth, old age, sickness, and death.
- Four rivers
- ཆུ་བོ་བཞི།
- chu bo bzhi
- —
Birth, aging, sickness, and death.
- Four floods
- ཆུ་བོ་བཞི།
- chu bo bzhi
- caturogha
The four rivers of existence, craving, ignorance, and wrong view.
- Four floods
- ཆུ་བོ་བཞི།
- chu bo bzhi
- caturogha
Sensual desire, desire for cyclic existence, holding views, and ignorance.
- Four torrents
- ཆུ་བོ་བཞི།
- chu bo bzhi
- caturogha
The four torrents, which are to be abandoned, comprise the torrent of fundamental ignorance, the torrent of wrong view, the torrent of rebirth, and the torrent of craving. See Nyima and Dorje (2001): 1075. See UT22084-031-002-875.