Transliteration: dbu ma pa gsum
<phrase> "The three Middle Way Types" or "The three Madhyamikas". There are several types of དབུ་མ་པ་ people who follow the Madhyamaka view because there are several different systems of explanation of the དབུ་མ་ Middle Way and consequently several types of followers. There are two main systems of Middle Way philosophy and since the first of the two has two major sub-divisions, there are three main types of Middle Way and consequently three types of Middle Way followers. The first main system of Middle Way philosophy is the དབུ་མ་རང་རྒྱུད་ Svatāntrika Madhyamaka and there are two types of follower corresponding to its two main sub-divisions: 1) མདོ་སྡེ་སྤྱོད་པ་ "sūtra followers" and 2) རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་ "yoga followers". The second main system and the third type of follower corresponding to it is the དབུ་མ་ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་ "Prasaṅgika Madhyamika".
