[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Tibetan canon (Kangyur & Tengyur)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet) › [Kangyur (translated words of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur) › [General sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde) › [འཕགས་པ་འཁར་གསིལ་གྱི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.335) › [The Sutra on the Ringing Staff](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.335~en-84000) › 5 # འཕགས་པ་འཁར་གསལ་གྱ་མད 5 The Sūtra on the Ringing Staff 5 - **Language:** English ### [5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.335~en-84000.5) In addition, they will become perfect in the thirty-seven practices—namely, the thirty-seven aids to awakening—and they will discern these dharmas with clarity.¹⁶ Because they actualize them physically, they do not pursue words. They frolic in these dharmas and are free to enter the gateways to liberation of emptiness, signlessness, and wishlessness at will and without difficulty.¹⁷ Such persons are called noble beings. “Possessing such qualities internally, they hold the ringing staff externally. Because of this, it is beyond doubt that such persons are perfect in the excellent qualities of noble beings: discipline, patience, meditative concentration, wisdom, the threefold knowledge, the six types of supernatural knowledge, and the eight kinds of liberation. Because the ringing staff engenders respect by signifying that such persons are noble beings, it is called the sign of a noble being. “As for the expression ‘that which signifies that the holder is a sublime being,’ because of possessing the nature of gnosis within, a person is said to be ‘sublime.’ The ringing staff engenders respect by signifying that the person is a noble being.¹⁸ It thereby shows that, because of possessing the nature of gnosis that is present within a noble being, the holder accomplishes the foundation of excellent qualities, strives for increasingly higher qualities, and accomplishes them well. Therefore, it is called that which signifies that the holder is a sublime being. “It makes known that ‘this clear-minded person, having practiced by means of wisdom, will enter before long the path leading to a peaceful and secluded state beyond conditioning, namely the bliss of nirvāṇa, the ultimate place.’ Therefore, the ringing staff is called the emblem that points to the Dharma of the path. “As for the expression ‘it is a practice that facilitates recollection,’ this ringing staff has three levels. Just by seeing the structure of the three segments, having recollected the suffering of the three lower states of existence, - [Previous: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.335~en-84000.4) - [Next: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.335~en-84000.6) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་འཁར་གསིལ་གྱི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.335.5) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.335~en-84000.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.335~en-84000.5) · Pramāṇa