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There are '''three types of words of the Buddha''' (Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་བཀའ་གསུམ་, [[Wyl.]] ''sangs rgyas kyi bka' gsum''), in terms of their medium of transmission (more literally, the [[dominant condition]]). They are sometimes translated as the "'''three transmitted precepts'''". They are:

#the oral teachings (Tib. ''sungwé ka'');
#the teachings given through blessings (Tib. ''chinji labpé ka''), as when while in meditation the [[Buddha]] blessed [[Avalokiteshvara]] and [[Shariputra]] and the [[Heart Sutra]] arose; and
#the repeated teachings (Tib. ''rjes su nangwé ka''), at the beginning of which teaching it says, "Thus have I heard" and at the end, "This is how the Buddha spoke".


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