ABHISAMAYALAMKARA

10 ANALYSIS OF
progressive process of intuition has for its aim the attainment
of perfect certainty (in regard of each of the aspects
of the 3 forms of Omniscience).
[Abhis. aloka. MS. 375a. 5 sqq.]
[Sphut 841b. 6—85a. 2.] rtse-mohi mhon-par-rtogs-pa
thob-pa so~so-ha dan bsdus-pa-nid-du rtogs-pahi don-mam"
go-nms-bzin-dti blags-nas brtan-por-bya-bahi-phytr rnampar-sgom-par-byed-pas
mthar-gyis-pahi mhon-par-riogspa.
Varieties:—13 forms of progressive intuition.
[Don. 3a. 4.] mthar-gyis sbyor-ba bcu-gsum. 1
Limits: Beginning with the Mahayanistic Path of
Accumulating Merit and ending before the final moment
of the Process of Illumination.
[Ibid. 3a. 5.] sa-mtshams theg-chen-gyi ishogs-lamnas
rgyun-mthahi sfia-logs bar-du yod.
IV. T h e final m o m e n t a r y I n t u i t i o n .
^iqmilfiWirata: = skad-cig-ma-gcig-pahi mhon-par-rdzogspar
byah-chub-pa or ^fin^5" 1^ = sk.ad-cid-tnahi sbyorba.
(7).
Definition: The ultimate yoga of the Mahayanist
Saint, resulting from the progressive process of contemplation
of the aspects of the 3 forms of Omniscience.
[Don. 3a. 5-6.] mkhyen gsum-gyi rnam-pa mthar-gyis
sgom-pa-las byuh-bahi sems-dpahi mal-hbyor mthar-thug.
The individual who has undergone the progressive
process of intuition must finally become fully trained in
the practice of transic meditation. Accordingly those
elements which he has contemplated before he is now
able to intuit directly in one single moment.
is fixed in the mind. On the Path of Accumulating Merit the progressive
process consists in the meditation over the topics which have
been apprehended through study and analysis. The topics thus cognized
on the most inferior degree of the Path of Accumulating Merit
are contemplated again on the intermediate and the higher degrees
of that Path. (Sic. ace. to Gser. I. 86a. 2-3).
1 Cf. below, Chapter VI.
THE ABHISAMAYALAMKARA
[Abhis. aloka, MS. 375a. 18-20]
[Sphut. 85b. 3-4.] mthar-gyis-pahi mnon~par-rtogspa
mam-par~bsgoms~pa-ni sin-tu goms-par-bya-bahi-phyir
de-dag-nid sk.ad~cig~ma gcig-gis sgom-pas sk,ad-cig~ma
gcig-pahi mnon-pdr-rdzogs-par by ah-chub ~p a.
Varieties :—4 foims, the difference being with
regard to the point of view'. 1
[Don. 3b. 6.] dbye-na Idog-pahi sgo nas bzi<
Limits: 1 akes place at the final moment of the
Path. 2 [Ibid.] sa-mtsharns rgyun-mthah hho~nar yod.
Ac. The Ultimate Result of the
Path. This is :—
oThe Cosmical Body of the Buddha.
H«H«t»Ni =chos~sk u . (8).
Definition:—The (aggregate of) the purest
virtuous properties which is the result attained by means
of the meditation over the aspects of the 3 forms
of Omniscience.
[Don. 3b. I.] mkhyen gsum-gyi rnam-pa bsgom
stobs-kyis thob-pahi hbVas~bu mthar-thug-pahi zag-medfyyi
yon-tan.
(The Bodhisattva) who has come to the final
momentary Illumination has at the next moment
the full and clearest intuition of the Cosmical Body of
the Buddha (as his own essential nature).
[Abhis. aloka, MS. 377a. 3-4.]
[Sphut. 87b. 3-4.] skad-cig-ma gcig-pahi miion-parrdzogs-par
byah-chub-pa rnam-par-bsgoms-pahi sk&d-cig*
ma ghis-pa-la chos-kyi-sk.ur mhon~patr~rdzogs-par-byahchub-pa.
Varieties:
1. The Cosmical Body as the Ultimate Essence of
1 Cf. below, Chapter VII.
2 The final momentary Illumination (eha-ksana-abhisambodhd}
and the Culminating Degree directly preceding the attainment of Buddhahood
(anantarya-murdha-prayoga) are simultaneous.