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Explain the two different "three trainings"
'''The Three Trainings''' are [[study]], [[contemplation]], and [[meditation]] (ཐོས་བསམ་སྒོམ་གསུམ་, tö sam gom sum):


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#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
 
*[http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/thos_bsam_sgom_gsum 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)

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The Three Trainings are study, contemplation, and meditation (ཐོས་བསམ་སྒོམ་གསུམ་, tö sam gom sum):

  1. ཐོས་ (Tö) = Studying dharma texts or listening to the dharma being taught
  2. བསམ་ (Sam) = Contemplating, reflecting or thinking deeply about the meaning of a teaching
  3. 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)

  1. ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་བསླབ་པ་ = The Training in Discipline (Skt. adhiśīlaśikṣa)
  2. ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་བསླབ་པ་ = The Training in Meditative Absorption (Skt. samādhiśikṣa)
  3. ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་བསླབ་པ་ = The Training in Wisdom (Skt. prajñāśikṣa)