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'''Ascertainment of the Three Types of Vows''' (Tib. སྡོམ་གསུམ་རྣམ་ངེས་, ''Dom Sum'', [[Wyl.]] ''sdom gsum rnam nges'') — an important treatise on the [[three sets of vows]] from a [[Dzogchen]] perspective by [[Ngari Panchen Pema Wangyal]] (1487-1542).

There are five chapters:
#A Brief Explanation of the Stages of the Main Teaching
#An Explanation of the [[Pratimoksha]]-vinaya
#The [[Bodhisattva Vow]]s
#[[Secret Mantra]]
#An Explanation of How to Practise the Three Vows Together without Conflict

==Tibetan Text==
* {{TBRCW|O1JT2627|O1JT26272JT1727$W19229|རང་བཞིན་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལམ་གྱི་ཆ་ལག་སྡོམ་པ་གསུམ་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་བསྟན་བཅོས།, ''rang bzhin rdzogs pa chen po'i lam gyi cha lag sdom pa gsum rnam par nges pa zhes bya ba'i bstan bcos/''}}, ''dom sum nam ngé'', Ascertainment of the three vows.

==Translations==
*Ngari Panchen, ''Perfect Conduct: Ascertaining the Three Vows'', with commentary by Dudjom Rinpoche (Boston: Wisdom Publications 1996), ISBN 978-0861710836

==Commentaries==
*[[Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje]], ''sdom gsum rnam nges kyi 'grel pa dpag bsam snye ma'', སྡོམ་གསུམ་རྣམ་ངེས་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་དཔག་བསམ་སྙེ་མ།
*[[Khenpo Yönga]], Gateway of the Vidyādharas: A Word-by-Word Commentary on Ascertainment of the Three Types of Vows ([https://library.bdrc.io/show/bdr:WA23221?tabs=bdr:MW23221,bdr:W23221 ''sdom gsum rnam par nges pa'i mchan 'grel rig pa 'dzin pa'i 'jug ngogs'', སྡོམ་གསུམ་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པའི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་རིག་པ་འཛིན་པའི་འཇུག་ངོགས་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། ] 
*[[Tulku Tsultrim Zangpo]], ''sdom gsum rnam nges kyi rnam bshad paN chen dgongs pa rab gsal bai DUr dkar po’i ‘od snang skal bzang ‘jug ngogs kyi snga dum''
:{{TBRCW|O1PD36463|O1PD364632DB25931$W1PD26799|སྡོམ་གསུམ་རྣམ་ངེས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་བཤད་པཎ་ཆེན་དགོངས་པ་རབ་གསལ་བཻ་ཌཱུར་དཀར་པོའི་འོད་སྣང་སྐལ་བཟང་འཇུག་ངོགས་ཀྱི་སྔ་དུམ།, ''sdom gsum rnam nges kyi rnam bshad paN chen dgongs pa rab gsal bai DUr dkar po'i 'od snang skal bzang 'jug ngogs kyi snga dum/''}}, ''gsum 'bum'' Vol 5, p.3.
* [[Dudjom Rinpoche]], A word by word commentary to the ''sdom gsum rnam nges'', verse work on the three disciplines by [[Ngari Panchen Pema Wangyal]]
:{{TBRCW|O2DB72891|O2DB728912DB72900$W20869|སྡོམ་གསུམ་རྣམ་ངེས་འབྲུ་འགྲེལ།, ''sdom gsum rnam nges 'bru 'grel/''}}, Dudjom Rinpoche ''gsum 'bum'', Vol 4, p.7.

==External Links==
*[https://bodhicharya.org/teachings/archives/three-levels-of-commitment Three Levels of Commitment—Ringu Tulku Archive]

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