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The '''three gateways to liberation''' (Tib. [[རྣམ་ཐར་སྒོ་གསུམ་]]''nam tar go sum''; [[Wyl.]] ''rnam thar sgo gsum'')  are features of all phenomena which provide a means to realize their absolute nature. They are:
The '''three gateways to liberation''' (Tib. [[རྣམ་ཐར་སྒོ་གསུམ་]], ''nam tar go sum''; [[Wyl.]] ''rnam thar sgo gsum'')  are features of all phenomena which provide a means to realize their absolute nature. They are:
#[[emptiness]] (Skt. ''śūnyatā''; Tib. [[སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]], ''tongpa nyi''; Wyl. ''stong pa nyid'')
#[[emptiness]] (Skt. ''śūnyatā''; Tib. [[སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་]], ''tongpa nyi''; Wyl. ''stong pa nyid'')
#absence of characteristics or attributes (Skt. ''animitta''; Tib. [[མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པ་]], ''tsen nyi mépa''; Wyl. ''mtshan nyid med pa'')
#absence of characteristics or attributes (Skt. ''animitta''; Tib. [[མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པ་]], ''tsen nyi mépa''; Wyl. ''mtshan nyid med pa'')

Revision as of 12:55, 11 May 2011

The three gateways to liberation (Tib. རྣམ་ཐར་སྒོ་གསུམ་, nam tar go sum; Wyl. rnam thar sgo gsum) are features of all phenomena which provide a means to realize their absolute nature. They are:

  1. emptiness (Skt. śūnyatā; Tib. སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, tongpa nyi; Wyl. stong pa nyid)
  2. absence of characteristics or attributes (Skt. animitta; Tib. མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པ་, tsen nyi mépa; Wyl. mtshan nyid med pa)
  3. wishlessness, absence of expectancy (Skt. apraṇihita; Tib. སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ་, mönpa mépa; Wyl. smon pa med pa)

Alternative Translations

  • three gates of emancipation
  • three doors of deliverance
  • three approaches to liberation (Dorje & Kapstein)
  • three avenues/ doorways to liberation
  • three doors of perfect liberation (Padmakara in Treasury of Precious Qualities)

Further Reading

  • Kangyur Rinpoche, Treasury of Precious Qualities (Boston: Shambhala, 2001), Appendix 10, pp. 347-8

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