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The '''three gateways to liberation''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྣམ་ཐར་སྒོ་གསུམ་]]}}, ''[[nam tar go sum]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[rnam thar sgo gsum]]'') are features of all phenomena which provide a means to realize their absolute nature. They are: | The '''three gateways to liberation''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྣམ་ཐར་སྒོ་གསུམ་]]}}, ''[[nam tar go sum]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[rnam thar sgo gsum]]'') are features of all phenomena which provide a means to realize their absolute nature. They are: | ||
#[[emptiness]] (Skt. ''[[śūnyatā]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]]}}, ''[[tongpa nyi]]''; Wyl. ''[[stong pa nyid]]'') | #[[emptiness]] (Skt. ''[[śūnyatā]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]]}}, ''[[tongpa nyi]]''; Wyl. ''[[stong pa nyid]]'') | ||
| − | #absence of characteristics or attributes (Skt. ''[[animitta]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པ་]]}}, ''tsen nyi mépa''; Wyl. ''mtshan nyid med pa'') | + | #absence of characteristics or attributes (Skt. ''[[animitta]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པ་]]}}, ''[[tsen nyi mépa]]''; Wyl. ''[[mtshan nyid med pa]]'') |
| − | #wishlessness, absence of expectancy (Skt. ''[[apraṇihita]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ་]]}}, ''mönpa mépa''; Wyl. ''smon pa med pa'') | + | #wishlessness, absence of expectancy (Skt. ''[[apraṇihita]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ་]]}}, ''[[mönpa mépa]]''; Wyl. ''[[smon pa med pa]]'') |
==Alternative Translations== | ==Alternative Translations== | ||
Revision as of 16:10, 5 February 2014
The three gateways to liberation (Tib. རྣམ་ཐར་སྒོ་གསུམ་, nam tar go sum; Wyl. rnam thar sgo gsum) are features of all phenomena which provide a means to realize their absolute nature. They are:
- emptiness (Skt. śūnyatā; Tib. སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, tongpa nyi; Wyl. stong pa nyid)
- absence of characteristics or attributes (Skt. animitta; Tib. མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པ་, tsen nyi mépa; Wyl. mtshan nyid med pa)
- wishlessness, absence of expectancy (Skt. apraṇihita; Tib. སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ་, mönpa mépa; Wyl. smon pa med pa)
Alternative Translations
- three gates of emancipation
- three doors of deliverance
- three approaches to liberation (Dorje & Kapstein)
- three avenues/ doorways to liberation
- three doors of perfect liberation (Padmakara in Treasury of Precious Qualities)
Further Reading
- Kangyur Rinpoche, Treasury of Precious Qualities (Boston: Shambhala, 2001), Appendix 10, pp. 347-8
