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<noinclude>'''Three [[vajra]]s''' (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'') —
</noinclude>*[[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'').<noinclude>
*vajra mind (Skt. ''cittavajra''; Tib. ཐུགས་ཀྱི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ ''tuk kyi dorjé''; Wyl. ''thugs kyi rdo rje'').<noinclude>


In [[Vajrayana]], the [[three doors]] of [[human 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]].

Revision as of 12:55, 14 December 2017

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.

Further Reading

  • Dzogchen Ponlop, Wild Awakening (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2003), pages 152-154.

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