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སོ་ཟུར་གནུབས་གསུམ་
Transliteration: so zur gnubs gsum
<enum> "The three—So, Zur, Nub" meaning the three acharyas of the early Nyingma school who were the source of the བཀའ་མ་ Kama system of the Nyingma teachings. They are: སོ་ཡེ་ཤེས་དབང་ཕྱུག་, ཟུར་པོ་ཆེ་ཤཱ་ཀྱ་འབྱུང་གནས་, and གནུབས་སངས་རྒྱས་ཡེ་ཤེས་ q.v. See also སོ་ཟུར་གནུབས་གཉགས་.

གནུབས་སངས་རྒྱས་ཡེ་ཤེས་
Transliteration: gnubs sangs rgyas ye shes
<noun> "Nub Sangyay Yeshe". Sangyay Yeshe of the Nub clan from Nub. He was one of the group of རྗེ་འབངས་ཉི་ཤུ་ལྔ་ "the twenty-five, Lord and subjects". He was a great scholar and one of the great translators in the time of ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ King Trisong Detsan. He was particularly known for holding the lineage of གསང་བ་འདུས་པ་ Guhyasamaja. He translated Guhyasamaja texts and wrote a set of …

ཟུར་གསུམ་
Transliteration: zur gsum
<noun> 1) The geometric shape "triangle". 2) The name given to the hand-tool called a གཟོང་ punch but which has a triangular blade for punching out triangular holes.