84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཤེས་པ་བཅུ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཤེས་པ་བཅུ།

  • shes pa bcu
  • daśajñāna
  • Term
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  • ten knowledges
  • ཤེས་པ་བཅུ།
  • shes pa bcu
  • daśajñāna
Definition in this text:

The ten knowledges, as given in the Abhidharmakośa, are (1) worldly knowledge, (2) the knowledge of phenomena (dharma), (3) inferential knowledge, (4) knowledge of suffering, (5) knowledge of the origin of suffering, (6) knowledge of the cessation of suffering, (7) knowledge of the path, (8) knowledge of others’ minds, (9) knowledge of exhaustion, and (10) knowledge of non-arising.