Difference between revisions of "Three Trainings"
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| − | '''The Three Trainings''' are study, contemplation, and meditation (ཐོས་བསམ་སྒོམ་གསུམ་, tö sam gom sum): | + | '''The Three Trainings''' are [[study]], [[contemplation]], and [[meditation]] (ཐོས་བསམ་སྒོམ་གསུམ་, tö sam gom sum): |
#ཐོས་ (Tö) = Studying dharma texts or listening to the dharma being taught | #ཐོས་ (Tö) = Studying dharma texts or listening to the dharma being taught | ||
Latest revision as of 11:02, 23 September 2020
The Three Trainings are study, contemplation, and meditation (ཐོས་བསམ་སྒོམ་གསུམ་, tö sam gom sum):
- ཐོས་ (Tö) = Studying dharma texts or listening to the dharma being taught
- བསམ་ (Sam) = Contemplating, reflecting or thinking deeply about the meaning of a teaching
- སྒོམ་ (Gom) = Meditating or familiarizing one's self with the meaning of a teaching
- From the Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary:
- 'Learning' means receiving oral teachings and studying scriptures in order to clear away ignorance and wrong views.
- 'Reflection' is to eradicate uncertainty and misunderstanding through carefully thinking over the subject.
- 'Meditation' means to gain direct insight through applying the teachings in one's personal experience
Read more: http://dictionary.thlib.org/internal_definitions/public_term/65729#ixzz5AymBS8gs
There are also the three higher trainings (ལྷག་པའི་བསླབ་པ་གསུམ་, lhagpé labpa sum)
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་བསླབ་པ་ = The Training in Discipline (Skt. adhiśīlaśikṣa)
- ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་བསླབ་པ་ = The Training in Meditative Absorption (Skt. samādhiśikṣa)
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་བསླབ་པ་ = The Training in Wisdom (Skt. prajñāśikṣa)
