- sde gsum/
- ID:
- T104579
- སྡེ་གསུམ (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
- > sde gsum/ (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
- > desum (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
The Three Series. A threefold doxography used to classify the literature and doctrines of the Great Perfection (rdzogs chen). The three are (1) Mind Series (sems sde), (2) Space Series (klong sde), and (3) Esoteric Precept Series (man ngag sde). The Mind Series represents the early “pristine” Great Perfection, whose literature was a kind of philosophical poetry, devoid of overt descriptions of ritual, mediative practice, subtle body theory, or the discourses of sex and death associated with normative tantra. The Space Series and the Esoteric Precept represent the gradual reabsorption of these issues, with the Esoteric Precept Series in particular being marked by discussions of death, the intermediate state, the subtle body, and vision.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Chris Hatchell
- enumeration:
- 3
David Higgins Lexicon of Tibetan Buddhist Topics and Terminology
Note
These are the sde gsum of Atiyoga. See under rdzogs pa chen po.
by David Higgins
Other Dictionaries
1. Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary
རྫོགས་ཆེན་སྡེ་གསུམ་ Three sections The three divisions of Dzogchen: Mind Section, Space Section and Instruction Section. Also the name of an important terma of Chokgyur Lingpa
- language:
- Tibetan
2. Jim Valby Dictionary
teachings of the three classes, 3 divisions of 6,000,400 atiyoga verses
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- English
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