དབུ་མ་པ་གསུམ་
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 th…
མདོ་སྡེ་སྤྱོད་པ་
Transliteration: mdo sde spyod pa
<noun> "Sūtra Follower". One of the དབུ་མ་པ་གསུམ་ three Middle Way types. The དབུ་མ་རང་རྒྱུད་ Svatāntrika Madhyamika system of Middle Way philosophy has two main branches and hence two main types of follower. This is the type of follower that follows the statement of sūtra.
དབུ་མ་རང་རྒྱུད་པ་
Transliteration: dbu ma rang rgyud pa
<noun> "Svatāntra Madhyamika". Translat. of the Sanskrit "svatāntra madhyamika". A follower of or person who follows the དབུ་མ་རང་རྒྱུད་པ་ Svatāntra Madhyamaka school q.v. See also the དབུ་མ་པ་གསུམ་ three Middle Way types.
དབུ་མ་པ་
Transliteration: dbu ma pa
<noun> "Middle Way Follower", "follower of the Middle Way. Translation of the Sanskrit "madhyamika". The name given to someone who follows the དབུ་མ་ Madhyamaka or Middle Way system of philosophy. Such a person is one of གྲུབ་མཐའ་སྨྲ་བ་བཞི་ "the four proponents of tenets" q.v. There are three main types of Madhyamaka view and hence three main types of followers of it: see དབུ་མ་པ་གསུམ་ "Thr…
དབུ་ཕྱག་རྫོགས་གསུམ་
Transliteration: dbu phyag rdzogs gsum
<phrase> Abbrev. of དབུ་མ་ཆེན་པོ་དང་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་དང་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་གསུམ་ meaning the three principal ways of expressing the final view as found within Tibetan Buddhist lineages: the sūtra system of Great Madhyamaka, and the tantric systems of Great Mudra and Great Completion.
དབེན་པ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: dben pa gsum
<phrase> "The three isolations".
I. In general meaning the practise of removing body, speech, and mind into isolation away from activities that waste time and create negativity. In Buddhism, it is a name given to a basic practice of isolating oneself from hustle and bustle and discursive-thought provoking situations so that one can move ahead with spiritual practice. The three isolations are…
དག་པ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: dag pa gsum
<enum> "The three purities". 1) Three purities are described in Kriyātantra: ལྷ་དང་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་དག་པ་ purity of deity and mandala, རྫས་དང་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་དག་པ་ purity of substances and resources, and སྔགས་དང་ཏིང་འཛིན་དག་པ་ purity of mantra and samadhi. 2) Three purities are described in Mahāyogatantra where they are: སྣོད་དག་པ་ purity of the container; བཅུད་དག་པ་ purity of its contents; and རྒྱུད་…
དད་པ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: dad pa gsum
<enum> "The three faiths". The sūtra tradition of Buddhism describes three types of faith needed for the path. [DGT] [JKE] give as: 1) དང་བའི་དད་པ་ "lucid faith"; 2) མངོན་པར་འདོད་པའི་དད་པ་ "aspiring faith"; and 3) ཡིད་ཆེས་པའི་དད་པ་ "trusting faith". The second one is also abbrev. to མངོན་འདོད་ཀྱི་དད་པ་ and most commonly to འདོད་པའི་དད་པ་ q.v.
དབང་པོ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: dbang po gsum
<phrase> "The three faculties".
I. Referring to ཟག་མེད་ཀྱི་དབང་པོ་གསུམ་ the three faculties without outflows that are defined in order based on མཐོང་ལམ་ "the path of seeing", སྒོམ་ལམ་ "the path of meditation"; and མི་སློབ་པའི་ལམ་ "the path of no-more meditation". The three faculties are: 1) ཡོངས་སུ་མ་ཤེས་པ་ཡོངས་སུ་ཤེས་པའི་དབང་པོ་; 2) ཡོངས་སུ་ཤེས་པའི་དབང་པོ་; and 3) ཡོངས་སུ་ཤེས་པ་རྟོགས་པའི་དབ…
དཔྱད་པ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: dpyad pa gsum
<enumeration> "Three analysers".
I. The three types of analysers are: 1) མངོན་སུམ་གྱི་ཚད་མ་ valid cognition using direct perception; 2) རྗེས་དཔག་གི་ཚད་མ་ valid cognition using inference and 3) ལུང་གི་ཚད་མ་ valid cognition using scripture.
II. Inferential valid cognition is divided into three types which are also referred to with this name but meaning རྗེས་དཔག་གསུམ་ the three types of inferenc…
མཉེས་པ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: mnyes pa gsum
<phrase> "Three (kinds of) pleasing (actions)" which refers to three ways of pleasing the guru. They are: 1) (giving) material things; 2) (doing) service; and 3) (doing) practice (according to the instructions he has given) for accomplishment.
དག་པ་ས་གསུམ་
Transliteration: dag pa sa gsum
<phrase> "The three pure bhūmis / grounds / levels". See ས་དག་པ་ q.v.
བསྐལ་པ་བར་མ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: bskal pa bar ma gsum
<enum> "The three middle kalpas / ages". These are the three smaller periods of time that appear towards the end of each of བསྐལ་པ་བར་མ་ the middle kalpas. See under བསྐལ་པ་ kalpa for explanation. The three are: 1) མུ་གེའི་བསྐལ་པ་ "the kalpa of famine"; 2) ནད་ཀྱི་བསྐལ་པ་ "the kalpa of sickness"; and 3) མཚོན་གྱི་བསྐལ་པ་ "the kalpa of weapons / warfare".
མ་རིག་པ་རྣམ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: ma rig pa rnam gsum
<noun> "The three kinds of ignorance". The ཁྲེགས་ཆོད་ Thorough Cut and ཐོད་རྒལ་ Direct Crossing paths of the Great Completion teachings alone describe a progression of levels of the full state of མ་རིག་པ་ ignorance experienced by sentient beings. These are sometimes referred to as causes; they are causes in the sense of being types of loss of knowledge of reality that end up producing the f…
རྣམ་དབྱེ་གསུམ་པ་
Transliteration: rnam dbye gsum pa
<noun> "The third case" of Tibetan grammar. The name of the case is བྱེད་པ་པོ་ "agentive". It is defined the same as the agentive, also called instrumental, case of English. It is made by the addition of a བྱེད་པའི་སྒྲ་ "agentive term" after མིང་ "name". E.g., རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཡིས་གྲུ་རྫིངས་བསྐྱོད། "the (drifting) ship was carried about by the ocean".
མཁས་པ་མི་གསུམ་
Transliteration: mkhas pa mi gsum
<phrase> "The three expert men". During the mid tenth century A.D. in Tibet, གླང་དར་མ་ the ruling king Langdarma attempted to purge Tibet of Buddhism and was very successful. He eliminated Buddhism from Central Tibet but three men from Kham lived quietly in a cave and maintained the Vinaya and ordination lineages connected with it from before. After Langdarma was killed they came forth and …
དགའ་བ་གསུམ་པ་
Transliteration: dga' ba gsum pa
<noun> "Third Joy". A name for the 11st and 26th days of the lunar month; see དགའ་བ་ for explanation. The terms དཀར་ཕྱོགས་ "light phase" and ནག་ཕྱོགས་ "dark phase" are used to differentiate them; དཀར་ཕྱོགས་དགའ་བ་གསུམ་པ་ "third joy of the light phase" refers to the 11th day and ནག་ཕྱོགས་དགའ་བ་གསུམ་པ་ "third joy of the dark phase" refers to the 26th day.
