- འདུ་ཤེས་དགུ
- ’du shes dgu
- navasaṃjñā
- Term
- nine perceptions
- འདུ་ཤེས་དགུ
- ’du shes dgu
- navasaṃjñā
The nine perceptions of the repulsive state of the body after death are here listed as the perception of a bloated corpse, the perception of it chopped in half or the cleaned-out-by-worms perception, the perception of it as putrid, the bloodied perception, the black-and-blue perception, the savaged perception, the torn-asunder perception, the bones perception, and the burnt-bones perception.
- nine perceptions
- འདུ་ཤེས་དགུ
- ’du shes dgu
- navasaṃjñā
The nine perceptions of the repulsive state of the body after death are here listed as the perception of a bloated corpse, the perception of it chopped in half or the cleaned-out-by-worms perception, the perception of it as putrid, the bloodied perception, the black-and-blue perception, the savaged perception, the torn-asunder perception, the bones perception, and the burnt-bones perception.
- nine mundane contemplations
- འདུ་ཤེས་དགུ
- ’du shes dgu
- navasaṃjñā
The nine contemplations of impurity, as described in UT22084-026-001-320 are as follows: (1) contemplation of a bloated corpse, (2) contemplation of a worm-infested corpse, (3) contemplation of a putrefied corpse, (4) contemplation of a bloody corpse, (5) contemplation of a blue-black corpse, (6) contemplation of a devoured corpse, (7) contemplation of a dismembered corpse, (8) contemplation of a skeleton, and (9) contemplation of an immolated corpse. For Pāli and Sanskrit sources relevant to the nine contemplations of impurity, see Dayal (1932): 93–94.