What is right knowledge and right release in Noble tenfold path?

What is right knowledge and right release in Noble tenfold path?
Is this Magga Phala?
Or Noble Eightfold Path is Magga and the balance two is the Phala?
Or is this something we have to experience and not something we can put in to pen and paper?
Is it correct to say Noble Tenfold Path?

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I would say that they are seeing all phenomena as they actually are - impermanent, non-self and suffering and abandoning all craving for them.

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I donā€™t know how to answer you in terms of magga and phala. But both right knowledge/insight (sammāƱāį¹‡aį¹ƒ) and right release/liberation (sammāvimutti) are definetely grouped as things that are to be developed (bhavetabba), hence pertaining to the Fourth Noble Task of the Fourth Noble Truth.

See for example one of the many suttas of the Anguttara Nikaya which list a Tenfold Path:

Bhikkhus, these ten things developed and made much conduces to the destruction of the āsava. What ten?

Right view, right thought/resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration/stillness, right knowledge/insight and right release/liberation.

Bhikkhus, these ten things developed and made much conduces to the destruction of the āsava.
AN10.122

Hence, I am quite sure that to say Noble Tenfold Path is not wrong at all.

Also, I understand that the element of right insight serves the important role of linking the cultivation of the path to the First Noble Task of fully comprehending / understanding suffering, as well making room for fulfillment the the Second Noble Task of abandoning the causes of suffering.

In turn, the element of right release / liberation, when fully developed corresponds to the fullfillment of the Third Noble Task of verifying / witnessing the ending of suffering, at an individual level.

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i think they refer to this

Knowing and seeing thus, his mind is liberated from the canker of sensual desire, from the canker of existence, and from the canker of ignorance. When it is liberated, the knowledge arises: ā€˜It is liberated.ā€™ He understands: ā€˜Destroyed is birth, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is nothing further beyond this.

DN 2 and elsewhere

although in the sequence of the tenfold path their order is reversed which may or may not indicate a different referent

thereā€™s also a possibility that under right knowledge along with knowledge of destruction of taints/cankers two other knowledges are included, that is knowledge of recollecting past lives and divine eye which together comprise tevijja attained by the Buddha at Uruvela

ā€˜The recluse Gotama knows the three knowledges. Saying it thus they would be saying the right thing, and not blaming me falsely.
Vaccha, whenever I desire, I recollect the manifold previous births, such as one birth, two births, with all modes and all details, thus I recall the manifold previous births.
Vaccha, when I desire, with the purified heavenly eye beyond human, see beings disappearing and appearing, in unexalted and exalted states, beautiful and ugly, in good and bad states,-- I see beings, according their actions.
Vaccha, destroying desires, my mind released and released through wisdom, here and now by myself realising I abide. Vaccha, if it is said, the recluse Gotama knows the three knowledges, saying it thus, you would be saying the right thing and not blaming me falselyā€™

MN 71

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In the following Sutta it says ten qualities. Please note it is beyond training.

ā€œSo too, Bhaddāli, when a bhikkhu possesses ten qualities, he is worthy of gifts, worthy of hospitality, worthy of offerings, worthy of reverential salutation, an unsurpassed field of merit for the world. What are the ten? Here, Bhaddāli, a bhikkhu possesses the right view of one beyond training, the right intention of one beyond training, the right speech of one beyond training, the right action of one beyond training, the right livelihood of one beyond training, the right effort of one beyond training, the right mindfulness of one beyond training, the right concentration of one beyond training, the right knowledge of one beyond training, and the right deliverance of one beyond training. When a bhikkhu possesses these ten qualities, he is worthy of gifts, worthy of hospitality, worthy of offerings, worthy of reverential salutation, an unsurpassed field of merit for the world.ā€

https://suttacentral.net/en/mn65

Interesting point, but it seems the Pali word in the original is dhamma, which can also be translated as a generic thing term.

Evameva kho, bhaddāli, dasahi dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu āhuneyyo hoti pāhuneyyo dakkhiį¹‡eyyo aƱjalikaraį¹‡Ä«yo anuttaraį¹ƒ puƱƱakkhettaį¹ƒ lokassa. Katamehi dasahi?

Hence one may also read:

So too, Bhaddāli, when a bhikkhu possesses these ten things, he is worthy of gifts, worthy of hospitality ā€¦

Note that throughout the AN you will find the full ten items among the suttas listing things that should be cultivated (bhavetabba) - e.g. the AN10.151 - hence pertaining/related to the fourth of the Noble Tasks - the noble task of cultivating the way leading to the cessation of suffering.

As well, in the AN10.154 the Tenfold Path is listed as something that should be realized (sacchiĀ­kāta), reinforcing the validity of a tenfold formulation of the Path and linking it as well it to the third of the Noble Tasks - the noble task of verifying /realising the cessation of suffering.

Because the topic of the ā€˜tenfold pathā€™ pops up repeatedly I wrote a short wiki entry with the support of Aj. Sujato. It covers the basic things we know and refers to an article. Check it out, it might answer some of your questionsā€¦

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