Explanation of attaining and discarding the faculties-powers
Birth existence of womb-birth in the Desire Realm: འདོད་པའི་མངལ་སྐྱེས་ཀྱི་སྐྱེ་སྲིད་ཀྱི་གནས་སྐབས་སུ་
- Newly attained: body sense-power (ལུས་ཀྱི་དབང་པ།) and life-faculty (སྲོག་གི་དབང་པོ།)
- Already present in continuum: mental sense-power (ཡིད་ཀྱི་དབང་པོ།) and faculty of neutral feeling (བཏང་སྙོམས་ཀྱི་དབང་པོ།)
- Death (ordinary): body sense-power, life-faculty, mental sense-power, and faculty of neutral feeling cease simultaneously
- Death (virtuous): plus the five powers cease simultaneously
Birth existence of instantaneous-birth in the Desire Realm:
- Without signs (མཚན་མེད།)
- Newly attained: five sense-powers (མིག་སོགས་དབང་པོ་ལྔ།) and life-faculty (སྲོག་གི་དབང་པོ།)
- Death: five sense-powers and the three definite faculties cease simultaneously
- With signs (མཚན་ཡོད།)
- Newly attained: above six + either the male or female faculty (ཕོ་མོ་གང་རུང་གི་དབང་པོ།)
- Death: five sense-powers, the three definite faculties, and either the male or female faculty cease simultaneously
- With both signs (མཚན་གཉིས་པ།)
- Newly attained: above six + both the male and female faculties (ཕོ་མོའི་དབང་པོ་གཉིས།)
- Death: five sense-powers, the three definite faculties, and both the male and female faculties cease simultaneously
Birth existence of the Form Realm:
- Newly attained: five sense-powers (མིག་སོགས་དབང་པོ་ལྔ།) and life-faculty (སྲོག་གི་དབང་པོ།)
- Death: five sense-powers and the three definite faculties cease simultaneously
Birth existence of the Formless Realm:
- Newly attained: only one: life-faculty (སྲོག་གི་དབང་པོ་གཅིག་ཁོ་ན།)
- Death: life-faculty, mental sense-power, and faculty of neutral feeling cease simultaneously (definite faculties)
Up a level: Presentation of faculties-powers