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The '''three kinds of perception''' (Tib. སྔང་བ་གསུམ་, [[Wyl.]] ''snang ba gsum'') appear in the preliminaries for the [[Lamdré]] practice of the [[Sakya]] tradition:
The '''three kinds of perception''' (Tib. སྣང་བ་གསུམ་, [[Wyl.]] ''snang ba gsum'') appear in the preliminaries for the [[Lamdré]] practice of the [[Sakya]] tradition:


#impure perception (Tib. མ་དག་པའི་སྣང་བ་, ''ma dag pa'i snang ba'')
#impure perception (Tib. མ་དག་པའི་སྣང་བ་, ''ma dag pa'i snang ba'')

Revision as of 07:30, 30 November 2012

The three kinds of perception (Tib. སྣང་བ་གསུམ་, Wyl. snang ba gsum) appear in the preliminaries for the Lamdré practice of the Sakya tradition:

  1. impure perception (Tib. མ་དག་པའི་སྣང་བ་, ma dag pa'i snang ba)
  2. mixed perception experienced by yogis through practice (Tib. རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཉམས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བ་, rnal 'byor nyams kyi snang ba)
  3. pure perception (Tib. དག་པའི་སྣང་བ་, dag pa'i snang ba)

Further Reading

  • Deshung Rinpoche, The Three Levels of Spiritual Perception (Boston: Wisdom, 1995, 2003)