ABHISAMAYALAMKARA

320 ANALYSIS OF
L i m i t s : (The process of contemplation and
l/r l t al1 the a
L° _
s P e c t s ) b e g i n s w i t h t h e
M a h a y a n i s t i c P a t h of A c c u m u l a t i n g
M e r i t a n d l a s t s t i l l t h e e n d of t h e
w h o l e c o u r s e pf t r a i n i n g o n t h e P a t h .
[Ibid.] sa-mtshams theg-chen tshogs4am-nas tgyunmthani
bar-du yod.
THE ELEVEN CHARACTERISTIC ELEMENTS OF THE PROCESS OF
CONTEMPLATION AND INTUITION OF ALL THE ASPECTS OF
THE THREE FORMS OF OMNISCIENCE.
[Ibid.] rnam-rdzogs-sbyor-ba mtshan~byed~kyi chos
bcu-gcig yod-de. Summary, Kar. I. 12, 13.
1. The (173) Aspects. 3TOTT5 = mam-pa.
2. The (20) Methods of Training. S#nrr
= sbycr~ba.
3. The (14) Merits. mn^yon-tarf.
4. The (46) Defects in the Process of
Training. STCto^far: = sbyor~bahi
skon,
5. The Characteristic Marks or
Features of the Process. lWTf*T =
mtshan-nid.
6. The (preliminary) Degrees conducive to
Salvation. 1 #f*TFfter = thar-pahi cha dah-mthun~pa.
7. The (4) Degrees (of the Path of Training) 2
conducive to Illumination. "pRWn'for
^nes-par-hbyed-pahi cha dan-mthun-pa.
8. The Congregation of the Bodhis
a t t v a s who in their course of Training
have attained the Irretrievable
State.
byan-sems-kyi
dge-hdun.
: = slob-pa phyir~mi4dog~pahi
9. The Trailing in the Conterap
1 a t i o n o f the Identity of S a m s a r a and
Nirvana (from the standpoint of Ultimate Reality).
q^foRPRn^^^ mnam~nid-kyi sbyor~ba.
1 Are synonymous with the Path of Accumulating Merit
(sambhara~margaz=tshog8-lam).
2 prayoga-marga = s b l
;
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10. The Training in the Purification
of the Sphere of future Activity as a
Buddha : f^^ftgfe^T- =zih-dag-sbyor-ba.
11. The Training (of the Bodhisattva on the
three last Stages) characterized by sk£ll (and
representing an activity free from, effort).
r: = thabs-mkhas-sbyor-ba.
SUMMARY OF CHAPTER IV ACCORDING TO THE ABHIS. ALOKA.
After the three forms of Omniscience have been fully
apprehended (as an object of study etc.), it is necessary
to secure the mastery over t h e m (i.e. to realize
them practically). For this purpose (the future Mahayanist
Saint) contemplates the three forms of Omniscience,
having grasped together all the aspects of the Omniscience
of the Buddha, of the Omniscience in regard of
the Path, and of the Omniscience 1 in regard of the
objects of the Empirical World. 1 This is the process
of contemplation, and intuition
of all the aspects (of the three forms of
Omniscience).
It is expressed in the following manner :—
1. The (173) aspects (of the three forms of
Omniscience) are to be meditated upon by means of—
2. (twenty) special methods.
3. the (fourteen) merits, and
4. the (forty-six) defects (which are connected
with the process of Training) are respectively acquired
and rejected. Along with tjiis—
5. the characteristic features or
marks of the process of meditation are fully
apprehended. After that—
6. the roots of virtue peculiar to (the preliminary)
degrees conducive to* Salvation
become originated.
1 We must remember here that according to the hab ; ,t of thought
of the Yogins (Buddhistic and Non-Buddhistic) a perpetual intense contemplation
of an object brings about the actual realization of the said
object which appears like a myrobalan fruit on the palm of one's hand.
So is it with the three forms of Omniscience. Cf. Nyayabindu-tika,
BB. 12, 3, Transl. Buddh. Logic, vol. II. p. 31.