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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Google Books: The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems

The Seven Integrated Factors (representing the qualities of the enjoyment body) are known in Tibetan as kha sbyor yan lag bdun.—Accordingly, [while describing the distinctiveness of the Geluk tradition]: [...] Some say that when the innate gnosis becomes manifest simply through your becoming accustomed to the mind’s abiding in bliss, clarity, and non-conceptuality, then you awaken in this life. There is no awakening, however, without the achievement of a complete enjoyment body possessing the seven integrated factors and adorned with the major and minor marks. Achieving that in this life is impossible without a cause, and the cause must be of a similar type.

The Seven Integrated Factors are:

1. complete enjoyment,
2. union,
3. great bliss,
4. essencelessness,
5. perfect compassion,
6. non-interruption, and
7. non-cessation.

Source: Rigpa Shedra: Wiki

The Seven Aspects of Union (Tibetan: kha sbyor yan lag bdun) refers to the “seven qualities of a Sambhogakāya Buddha”. Jigme Lingpa quotes Ācārya Vāgīśvarakīrti in his auto-commentary on the “Treasury of Precious Qualities”, who lists them as:

1. complete enjoyment (longs spyod rdzogs),
2. union (kha sbyor),
3. great bliss (bde ba chen po),
4. absence of a self-nature (rang bzhin med pa),
5. presence of compassion (snying rjes yongs su gang ba),
6. being uninterrupted (rgyun mi chad pa),
7. being unceasing (‘gog pa med pa).

context information

Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Integrated, Seven, Union, Branch.

Full-text: kha sbyor yan lag bdun, Complete enjoyment, kha sbyor, Great bliss, Essencelessness, Perfect compassion, bde ba chen po, Non-interruption, longs spyod rdzogs, Non-cessation, rgyun mi chad pa, rang bzhin med pa, 'gog pa med pa, snying rjes yongs su gang ba, Union.

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