སུམ་ཅུ་སོ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: sum cu so gsum
<noun> 1) The number "thirty-three".
2) "The Thirty-three". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "trāyastriṃśhāḥ". The general name for the second (from the lowest) of the འདོད་ལྷ་རིགས་དྲུག་ six classes of gods in the འདོད་ཁམས་ desire realm. It is named after the fact that thirty-three different types of gods live there. Also, this was the abode of the Ārya Sthavira ལམ་ཆེན་བསྟན་ Mahāpanthaka q.…
སྲེད་པ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: sred pa gsum
<enum> "The three cravings". These are three types of སྲེད་པ་ craving that occur at the time of death and hence which become part of the process of rebirth. They are [DGT]: 1) འདོད་སྲེད་; 2) འཇིགས་སྲེད་; and 3) སྲིད་སྲེད་. Altern. their longer names are: འདོད་པའི་སྲེད་པ་; འཇིགས་པའི་སྲེད་པ་; and སྲིད་པའི་སྲེད་པ་. The first causes birth in to the འདོད་ཁམས་ desire realm; the second in the ཁམས་…
དག་པ་ས་གསུམ་
Transliteration: dag pa sa gsum
<phrase> "The three pure bhūmis / grounds / levels". See ས་དག་པ་ q.v.
སྟོང་པ་གསུམ་པ་
Transliteration: stong pa gsum pa
<phrase> "Third Empty". A name for the 14th and 29th days of the lunar month; see སྟོང་པ་ for explanation. The terms དཀར་ཕྱོགས་ "light phase" and ནག་ཕྱོགས་ "dark phase" are used to differentiate them; དཀར་ཕྱོགས་སྟོང་པ་གསུམ་པ་ "third empty of the light phase" refers to the 14th day and ནག་ཕྱོགས་སྟོང་པ་གསུམ་པ་ "third empty of the dark phase" refers to the 29th day.
གཙང་སྦྲ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: gtsang sbra gsum
<phrase> "Three strictly pure ones". Secret mantra terminology regarding ཚོགས་འཁོར་ feast gathering.
སྐབས་གསུམ་པ་
Transliteration: skabs gsum pa
<phrase> [Mngon] A general name for gods (devas).
སྤྱན་གསུམ་པ་
Transliteration: spyan gsum pa
<phrase> "Three-eyed one (male deity, etc.)". See under སྤྱན་གསུམ་ for meaning of three eyes.
མངོན་སུམ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: mngon sum gsum
<phrase> "The three kinds of direct perception". There are a number of groupings of མངོན་སུམ་ direct perception into three types.
I. According to the Cittamatra system: 1) དབང་པོའི་མངོན་སུམ་ sense direct perception; 2) རང་རིག་མངོན་སུམ་ self-knowing direct perception; 3) རྣལ་འབྱོར་མངོན་སུམ་ yogic direct perception.
སྤྱན་གསུམ་མ་
Transliteration: spyan gsum ma
<phrase> "Three-eyed one (female deity, etc.)". See under སྤྱན་གསུམ་ for meaning of three eyes.
སྲིད་པ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: srid pa gsum
<noun> "The three existences". This term refers to a variety of groupings of three differing places where a sentient being can have an existence. 1) According to an ancient formulation, From a human reference point, ས་འོག་ "below the earth", ས་སྟེང་ "on the earth"; and ས་བླ་ above the earth are the three places where beings live. 2) Also from a human reference point, another common enumerat…
སྡོམ་པ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: sdom pa gsum
<phrase> "The three restraints", "three vows". Translation of the Sanskrit "trisaṃvara". From the tantric perspective, there are three main ཐེག་པ་གསུམ་ vehicles in Buddhism and each vehicle has a set of vows / restraints (see སྡོམ་པ་ for more) associated with it. The three restraints refer to the complete collection of vows associated with each of the three vehicles. Taking these restraints…
