ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གསུམ་
Transliteration: ting nge 'dzin gsum
<phrase> "The three samādhis". See also ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་ "samādhi".
I. [DGT] gives as 1) མཚན་བཅས་རྩོལ་བཅས་ཀྱི་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་ "samādhi with signs with rational effort"; 2) མཚན་བཅས་རྩོལ་མེད་ཀྱི་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་ "samādhi with signs without rational effort"; and 3) མཚན་མེད་རྩོལ་མེད་ཀྱི་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་ "samādhi without signs without rational effort".
II. [DGT] gives as རྣམ་ཐར་སྒོ་གསུམ་ལ་དམིགས་པའི་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་ …
རིག་འཛིན་རྣམ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: rig 'dzin rnam gsum
<enum> "The three kinds of Vidyadhara". These are three kinds of mundane awareness-holder. [HNL] gives as: 1) ཆེན་བརྒྱད་གྲུབ་པ་རིག་པ་འཛིན་པ་ཆུང་ངུ་ the lesser awareness-holder of the eight common accomplishments; 2) འབྲིང་ནི་འདོད་པའི་རིག་པ་འཛིན་པ་ཕལ་པ་ the middling common awareness-holder of the desire realm; and 3) ཆེན་པོ་ནི་འདོད་པ་དང་གཟུགས་ཀྱི་རིག་པ་འཛིན་པ་ and the greater awareness-holde…
འཛིན་རྣམ་
Transliteration: 'dzin rnam
<noun> "Apprehending aspect" or "subjective aspect". See also གཟུང་རྣམ་ "objective aspect".
ཏིང་འཛིན་རྩེ་གཅིག་
Transliteration: ting 'dzin rtse gcig
<phrase> "One-pointed samādhi". 1) Generally a term for one pointed samādhi or loosely, "one-pointed concentration". See ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་ samādhi. 2) "One-pointed Samādhi". Acc. [POD], the name of a tantra which is one of the five tantras of actions. It is one of the seventeen explanatory tantras of Mahāyoga and is a tantra which is common to the tantras of ཨ་ནུ་ཡོ་ག་ Anuyoga.
ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་
Transliteration: ting nge 'dzin
<noun> "Concentration". Translation of the Sanskrit "samādhi". One of a group of three, important terms in Buddhist meditation. The other two are སྙོམས་འཇུག་ "samāpatti" and མཉམ་བཞག་ "samāhita" q.v. The terms are not interchangeable, each having its own, specific meaning.
Samādhi is used as a general, non-technical term indicating concentration of the mind onto some subject. It is also speci…
རིན་ཆེན་རྣམ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: rin chen rnam gsum
<phrase> 1) "The three precious ones" meaning དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་ the Three Jewels q.v. 2) "The three precious things". They are [TC]: 1) རིགས་ལམ་ཕྲ་མོ་འབྱེད་པའི་རྣམ་དཔྱོད། "fine analysis that does a fine dissection with logic; 2) གཞུང་ལུགས་གདམས་པར་ཤར་བའི་ཉམས་ལེན། "practice of meditation in which the instructions of the textual tradition become apparent"; ཚིག་སྦྱོར་ཚུལ་ལ་མཁས་པའི་ངག་ "expertise …
ཞབས་ཏོག་རྣམ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: zhabs tog rnam gsum
<phrase> "The three types of service". In vajra vehicle Buddhism, they are known as རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ་མཉེས་པར་བྱེད་པའི་ཞབས་ཏོག་ཞུ་ཚུལ་གསུམ་ the three ways of serving the guru. These three are classified as being the best, middling, and inferior types of service. They are: 1) རབ་སྒྲུབ་པའི་མཆོད་པ་ "best is the offering of practice"; 2) འབྲིང་ལུས་ངག་གི་ཞབས་ཏོག་ "middling is service with the body and…
འདུ་ཤེས་རྣམ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: 'du shes rnam gsum
<phrase> "The three perceptions". In the higher tantras, the instructions on practice with a consort (either real or visualized) use this terminology. It refers to a set of three perceptions one must have of oneself and the consort. The details are secret.
