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Three vajras (Skt. trivajra; Tib.རྡོ་རྗེ་གསུམ་, dorje sum, Wyl. rdo rje gsum) —

vajra body (Skt. kāyavajra; Tib. སྐུའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་, kü dorjé, Wyl. sku'i rdo rje),
vajra speech (Skt. vākvajra; Tib. གསུང་གི་རྡོ་རྗེ་, sung gi dorjé, Wyl. gsung gi rdo rje), and
vajra mind (Skt. cittavajra; Tib. ཐུགས་ཀྱི་རྡོ་རྗེ་, tuk kyi dorjé, Wyl. thugs kyi rdo rje).

In Vajrayana, the three doors of human beings are considered to be, in essence, the three vajras or three secrets.

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-'''Three vajras''' (Skt. ''trivajra''; Tib. ''dorje sum''; [[Wyl.]] ''rdo rje gsum'') —
+<noinclude>'''Three [[vajra]]s''' (Skt. ''trivajra''; Tib.རྡོ་རྗེ་གསུམ་, ''dorje sum'', [[Wyl.]] ''rdo rje gsum'') —
-*vajra body (Skt. ''kāyavajra''; Wyl. ''sku'i rdo rje''),
+</noinclude>*[[vajra body]] (Skt. ''kāyavajra''; Tib. སྐུའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་, ''kü dorjé'', Wyl. ''sku'i rdo rje''),
-*vajra speech (Skt. ''vākvajra''; Wyl. ''gsung gi rdo rje''), and
+*vajra speech (Skt. ''vākvajra''; Tib.  གསུང་གི་རྡོ་རྗེ་, ''sung gi dorjé'', Wyl. ''gsung gi rdo rje''), and
-*vajra mind (Skt. ''cittavajra''; Wyl. ''thugs kyi rdo rje'').
+*vajra mind (Skt. ''cittavajra''; Tib. ཐུགས་ཀྱི་རྡོ་རྗེ་, ''tuk kyi dorjé'', Wyl. ''thugs kyi rdo rje'').<noinclude>
-In [[Vajrayana]], the [[three doors]] of [[sentient beings]] are considered to be, in essence, the three vajras or [[three secrets]].
+In [[Vajrayana]], the [[three doors]] of [[human beings]] are considered to be, in essence, the three vajras or [[three secrets]].
+==Further Reading==
+*[[Dzogchen Ponlop]], ''Wild Awakening'' (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2003), pages 152-154.
+==Internal Links==
+*[[four vajras]]
+[[Category:Vajrayana]]
 [[Category:Enumerations]]
-[[Category:3-Three]]
+[[Category:03-Three]]<noinclude>