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'''Three categories''' or '''three classes''' (Tib. ''dé sum''; [[Wyl.]] ''sde gsum'') — the three categories into which [[Mañjushrimitra]] divided the [[Dzogchen]] teachings he received from [[Garab Dorje]]:
'''Three categories''' or '''three classes''' (Tib. སྡེ་གསུམ་, ''dé sum'', Wyl. ''sde gsum'') — the three categories into which [[Mañjushrimitra]] divided the [[Dzogchen]] teachings he received from [[Garab Dorje]]:


#the [[outer category of mind]] (''semdé''),
#the [[outer category of mind]] (''semdé''),
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#the [[category of pith instructions]] (''mengak dé'').
#the [[category of pith instructions]] (''mengak dé'').


==Alternative Translations==
*Three sections


==Oral Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha==
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], Paris, 26-27 June 1982, the 'Seven Stages of the Categories of Mind: Semdé, Longdé and Mengakdé'.
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], [[Les Ages 1987|Les Ages]] retreat, France, 16 August 1987
==Further Reading==
*[[Jamgön Kongtrul]], ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Part Four: Systems of Buddhist Tantra'', translated by Elio Guarisco and Ingrid McLeod (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2005), pages 339-345.
*[[Tulku Thondup]], ''The Practice of Dzogchen'' (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1989), Part I, 'Three Divisions of Atiyoga', pages 47-88.


[[Category:Dzogchen]]
[[Category:Dzogchen]]
[[Category:Enumerations]]
[[Category:Enumerations]]
[[Category:3-Three]]
[[Category:03-Three]]

Latest revision as of 23:38, 31 October 2020

Mañjushrimitra

Three categories or three classes (Tib. སྡེ་གསུམ་, dé sum, Wyl. sde gsum) — the three categories into which Mañjushrimitra divided the Dzogchen teachings he received from Garab Dorje:

  1. the outer category of mind (semdé),
  2. the inner category of space (longdé), and
  3. the category of pith instructions (mengak dé).

Alternative Translations

  • Three sections

Oral Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

Further Reading

  • Jamgön Kongtrul, The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Part Four: Systems of Buddhist Tantra, translated by Elio Guarisco and Ingrid McLeod (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2005), pages 339-345.
  • Tulku Thondup, The Practice of Dzogchen (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1989), Part I, 'Three Divisions of Atiyoga', pages 47-88.