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37 Harmonious Paths To Enlightenment (Tib: Jang-Chok So-Dhoon)

The document outlines the 37 Harmonious Paths to Enlightenment in Tibetan Buddhism according to two scholars, Arya Asanga and Acharya Vasubandhu. It describes the seven categories of the paths and their nature. According to Asanga, the paths are achieved at different stages of the bodhisattva path, from the Small Path of Accumulation to the Path of Meditation. According to Vasubandhu, the paths are achieved from the Path of Accumulation through various stages of the Path of Preparation to the Path of Seeing.

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37 Harmonious Paths To Enlightenment (Tib: Jang-Chok So-Dhoon)

The document outlines the 37 Harmonious Paths to Enlightenment in Tibetan Buddhism according to two scholars, Arya Asanga and Acharya Vasubandhu. It describes the seven categories of the paths and their nature. According to Asanga, the paths are achieved at different stages of the bodhisattva path, from the Small Path of Accumulation to the Path of Meditation. According to Vasubandhu, the paths are achieved from the Path of Accumulation through various stages of the Path of Preparation to the Path of Seeing.

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37 Harmonious Paths to Enlightenment

(Tib: Jang-chok So-dhoon)

1) 4 Mindfulness (Tib: drenpa nyershak shi) (nature: mindfulness and wisdom)

 Mindfulness of body ( as unclean and foul)

 Mindfulness of feeling (as of the nature of suffering)

 Mindfulness of mind (as momentary)

 Mindfulness of phenomena (afflictive phenomena to be abandoned and virtuous


phenomena to be brought into practice)

2) 4 Absolute Abandonments (Tib: yangdhak pongwa shi) (nature: joyous effort)

 Abandoning the non-virtues which have already arisen

 Not giving rise to the non-virtues which are not arisen

 Giving rise to the virtues which are not arisen

 Multiplying the virtues which have already arisen

3) 4 Miraculous Feet (Tib: zootrul kangpa shi) (nature: meditative concentration)

 Aspiration (Tib: dhoonpa)

 Joyous effort (Tib: tsondrue)

 Intention (Tib: sempa)

 Analysis (Tib: choepa)

4) 5 Powers (Tib: wangpo nga)

 Faith

 Joyous effort

 Mindfulness
 Meditative concentration

 Wisdom

5) 5 Strengths (Tib: top nga)

 Faith

 Joyous effort

 Mindfulness

 Meditative concentration

 Wisdom

6) 7 Limbs of Enlightenment (Tib: jangshub yenlag dhoon)

 Mindfulness

 Wisdom

 Joyous Effort

 Joy

 Pliancy

 Meditative Concentration

 Neutral Application

7) 8 Fold Noble Paths (Tib: phaglam yenlag gyad)

 Right View

 Right Thought

 Right Speech

 Right Action

 Right Livelihood

 Right Effort
 Right Mindfulness

 Right Meditative Concentration

Bodhisattva paths at which the respective 37 Harmonious Paths to Enlightenment are


achieved

According Arya Asanga:

1) 4 Mindfulness (Tib: drenpa nyershak shi) ----------------- --- Small Path of Accumulation

2) 4 Absolute Abandonments (Tib: yangdhak pongwa shi)--- Middle Path of Accumulation

3) 4 Miraculous Feet (Tib: zootrul kangpa shi)------------------- Great Path of Accumulation

4) 5 Powers (Tib: wangpo nga)--------------------------------------- Path of Preparation

5) 5 Strengths (Tib: top nga)-------------------------------------------Path of Preparation

6) 7 Limbs of Enlightenment (Tib: jangshub yenlag dhoon)---Path of Seeing

7) 8 Fold Noble Paths (Tib: phaglam yenlag gyad)---------------Path of Meditation

According Acharya Vasubandhu:

1) 4 Mindfulness (Tib: drenpa nyershak shi) ----------------- --- Path of Accumulation

2) 4 Absolute Abandonments (Tib: yangdhak pongwa shi)--- Path of Preparation (Heat)

3) 4 Miraculous Feet (Tib: zootrul kangpa shi)------------------- Path of Preparation (Peek)

4) 5 Powers (Tib: wangpo nga)--------------------------------------- Path of Preparation (fortitude)

5) 5 Strengths (Tib: top nga)------------------------------------------- Path of Preparation (Supreme of


Phenomema)

6) 7 Limbs of Enlightenment (Tib: jangshub yenlag dhoon)----Path of Meditation

7) 8 Fold Noble Paths (Tib: phaglam yenlag gyad)----------------Path of Seeing

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1) Drepung Loseling Panchen Sonam Drakpa Pharchin Chidhon Yellow Book (GA – Series) Page 379

2) Zoe-drel Tharlam Sel-Jay by Gylatsab Rinpoche Varanasi with the root text Print 2000, Page 448

3) Zoe-drel Ngon Pay Gyen by Chim Jampay (Yang Book form) Page 634

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