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'''Three gunas''' ([[Wyl.]] ''yon tan gsum'') — mentioned in the [[Samkhya]] philosophy: | '''Three gunas''' (Tib. [[ཡོན་ཏན་གསུམ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''yon tan gsum'') — mentioned in the [[Samkhya]] philosophy: | ||
#rajas (Wyl. ''rdul'') | #rajas (Tib. [[རྡུལ་]], Wyl. ''rdul'') | ||
#tamas (Wyl. ''mun pa'') | #tamas (Tib. [[མུན་པ་]], Wyl. ''mun pa'') | ||
#sattva (Wyl. ''snying stobs'') | #sattva (Tib. [[སྙིང་སྟོབས་]], Wyl. ''snying stobs'') | ||
==Translations== | ==Translations== | ||
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*[[Jeffrey Hopkins]] translates them more literally as motility or activity (''rajas''), darkness (''tamas'') and lightness (''sattva''). | *[[Jeffrey Hopkins]] translates them more literally as motility or activity (''rajas''), darkness (''tamas'') and lightness (''sattva''). | ||
[[Category:Philosophical Tenets]] | [[Category:Philosophical Tenets]] | ||
[[Category:Non-Buddhist Schools]] | |||
[[Category:Enumerations]] | [[Category:Enumerations]] | ||
[[Category:3-Three]] | [[Category:3-Three]] | ||
Revision as of 02:41, 2 February 2011
Three gunas (Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་གསུམ་, Wyl. yon tan gsum) — mentioned in the Samkhya philosophy:
- rajas (Tib. རྡུལ་, Wyl. rdul)
- tamas (Tib. མུན་པ་, Wyl. mun pa)
- sattva (Tib. སྙིང་སྟོབས་, Wyl. snying stobs)
Translations
- S. Dasgupta, in his A History of Indian Philosophy, translates sattva as “intelligence stuff”, rajas as “energy-stuff” and tamas as “mass-stuff.”
- In their translation of the Bodhicharyavatara, the Padmakara Translation Group call sattva “pleasure”, rajas “pain” and tamas “neutrality”.
- Jeffrey Hopkins translates them more literally as motility or activity (rajas), darkness (tamas) and lightness (sattva).