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'''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 | |||
*[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) | |||
Revision as of 10:57, 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)
