[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Doctrinal sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma) › [Dharmasaṅgīti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti) › [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡུད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo) › [The Dharma Council](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000) › 3.3 # འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.3 The Dharma Council 3.3 - **Language:** English ### [3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3.3) Child of good family, these are the ten powers of a bodhisattva. “What then are the ten truths of a bodhisattva? Conventional truth, ultimate truth, the truth of characteristics, the truth of classification, the truth of discernment, the truth of entities, the truth of capacity, the truth of knowing exhaustion and nonarising, the truth of knowing the entry point to the path, and the truth of the source of all of the wisdom of the thus-gone-ones. These are the ten truths.⁷¹ “Conventional truth involves assessment; it is the delimitation of an object, a conventional designation. As such, an object is indicated by means of factors external to it, such as ‘small’ being defined as ‘not large.’ This is conventional truth. “Ultimate truth is profound, is consistent with emptiness, does not delimit objects, and is not dependent on external factors. It is neither equivalent nor not equivalent to anything, and it is undisturbed, indisputable, and is the suchness of all phenomena. This is ultimate truth. “The truth of characteristics is understood as follows. Its characteristic of being harmful is the truth of suffering,⁷² its characteristic of arising is the truth of origin, its characteristic of peace is the truth of cessation, and its characteristic of emergence is the truth of the path. This is what is known as the truth of characteristics. Furthermore, knowing the natural selflessness of all phenomena, a bodhisattva finds certainty. This certainty in the mode of characteristics⁷³ is known as the truth of characteristics. Likewise, upon knowing that all phenomena have the characteristic of natural peace, natural isolation, natural emptiness, and that they do not naturally arise or cease, a bodhisattva finds certainty. This certainty in the mode of characteristics is known as the truth of characteristics. “The characteristic of classification ⁷⁴ is to classify all phenomena that have a single characteristic in terms of other characteristics and then to explain them as such. - [Previous: 3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3.2) - [Next: 3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3.4) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡུད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo.3.3) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3.3) · Pramāṇa