Four complete purities

four complete purities (T. rnam pa thams cad dag pa bzhi). Also translated as "fourfold complete purity", "four aspects of absolute purity", etc. One of the twenty-one sets of undefiled qualities.

The Treasury of Precious Qualities states:

The four complete purities (rnam pa thams cad dag pa bzhi).

Buddhas possess the “purity of bodily existence.” That is, they have perfect mastery over the three stages of assuming a body, abiding with it, and relinquishing it.

They have the “purity of objects and possessions,” in other words, mastery in the transformation and manifestation of the five sense objects, forms, sounds, and so forth.

They have the “purity of the mind and of primordial wisdom.” The first means that they have mastery over concentration, and the second means that they have mastery in the supreme knowledge of emptiness.

The Khenjuk states:

The next category, the fourfold complete purity, means the purity of body, object, attention and wisdom.

I) The first is to have attained mastery over the ability to change the body in whichever way one chooses.

II) The second is to have attained mastery over the ability to change objects into any desired thing.

III) The third is to have attained mastery over all types of samadhi, and

IV) the fourth is to be free from obstruction with regard to all knowable things.

Alternative translations

• "four complete purities",
• "fourfold complete purity",
• "four aspects of absolute purity",
• etc.

Sources

• Jigme Lingpa; Kangyur Rinpoche (2010), Treasury of Precious Qualities, Book One, translated by Padmakara Translation Group, Boston: Shambhala Publications 
• Mipham Rinpoche (2002), Gateway to Knowledge, vol. III, translated by Kunsang, Erik Pema, Rangjung Yeshe Publications