{"id":79962,"date":"2025-06-21T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/?p=79962"},"modified":"2025-09-01T18:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:46:16","slug":"the-real-meaning-of-the-five-vidyas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/the-real-meaning-of-the-five-vidyas\/the-treasure-book-h-h-dorje-chang-buddha-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Meaning of the Five Vidyas"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"79962\" class=\"elementor elementor-79962\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad34915 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ad34915\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6508ad2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6508ad2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Real Meaning of the Five Vidyas<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22ed21a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"22ed21a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reposted from<em>\u00a0H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sunmoonlight.org\/book_72dpi\/00-p1-64.pdf\">p.39<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ca13d6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7ca13d6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8c3553c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8c3553c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2480\" height=\"1593\" src=\"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u963f\u5bc7\u62c9\u6469\u4ec1\u6ce2\u4e14.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-79964\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u963f\u5bc7\u62c9\u6469\u4ec1\u6ce2\u4e14.jpg 2480w, https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u963f\u5bc7\u62c9\u6469\u4ec1\u6ce2\u4e14-1024x658.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u963f\u5bc7\u62c9\u6469\u4ec1\u6ce2\u4e14-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u963f\u5bc7\u62c9\u6469\u4ec1\u6ce2\u4e14-1536x987.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u963f\u5bc7\u62c9\u6469\u4ec1\u6ce2\u4e14-2048x1316.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2480px) 100vw, 2480px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5cf7890 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5cf7890\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Wearing a dharma hat Venerable Akou Lamo Rinpoche conducts a Dharma Assembly for rinpoches dharma teachers and laypersons.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-093c434 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"093c434\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d94498 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3d94498\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Traditionally, the vidyas are divided into the five major vidyas and the five minor vidyas. The five major vidyas are the silpakarmasthanavidya (craftsmanship vidya), the cikitsvidya (healing vidya), the sabdavidya (sound vidya), the hetuvidya (causality or Buddhist logic vidya), and the adhyatmavidya (inner realization vidya). The five minor vidyas are rhetoric, ornate diction, prosody, dramaturgy, and astronomy. Actually, the Five Vidyas are not that narrow. Everything in the universe can be classified into five aspects of brightness and darkness. To develop everything that is good in the universe and that benefits living beings is classified as \u201cbright.\u201d That which confuses and is bad is classified as \u201cdark.\u201d This is the real meaning of the Five Vidyas (Five Bright) of which the Buddha spoke.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\">Venerable Akou Lamo Rinpoche<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-be9e4c2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"be9e4c2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-69889d5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"69889d5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/category\/the-treasure-book-h-h-dorje-chang-buddha-iii\/\">\u00ab The Treasure Book\u00a0<em>H.H. 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The five major vidyas are the silpakarmasthanavidya (craftsmanship vidya), the cikitsvidya (healing vidya), the sabdavidya (sound vidya), the hetuvidya (causality or Buddhist logic vidya), and the adhyatmavidya (inner realization vidya)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":79964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-treasure-book-h-h-dorje-chang-buddha-iii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79962"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79979,"href":"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79962\/revisions\/79979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}