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'''Three Gunas''' ([[wyl.]] ''yon tan gsum'') - mentioned in the [[Samkhya]] philosophy:
'''Three gunas''' ([[Wyl.]] ''yon tan gsum'') mentioned in the [[Samkhya]] philosophy:


#rajas (Tib. ''rdul'')
#rajas (Wyl. ''rdul'')
#tamas (Tib. ''mun pa'')
#tamas (Wyl. ''mun pa'')
#sattva (Tib. ''snying stobs'')
#sattva (Wyl. ''snying stobs'')


==Translations==
==Translations==
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*In their translation of the ''[[Bodhicharyavatara]]'', the Padmakara Translation Group call ''sattva'' “pleasure”, ''rajas'' “pain” and ''tamas'' “neutrality”.
*In their translation of the ''[[Bodhicharyavatara]]'', the Padmakara Translation Group call ''sattva'' “pleasure”, ''rajas'' “pain” and ''tamas'' “neutrality”.


*Jeffrey Hopkins translates them more literally as motility or activity (''rajas''), darkness (''tamas'') and  lightness (''sattva'').
*[[Jeffrey Hopkins]] translates them more literally as motility or activity (''rajas''), darkness (''tamas'') and  lightness (''sattva'').


[[Category:Enumerations]]
[[Category:Enumerations]]
[[Category:Philosophical Tenets]]
[[Category:Philosophical Tenets]]

Revision as of 20:16, 8 May 2009

Three gunas (Wyl. yon tan gsum) — mentioned in the Samkhya philosophy:

  1. rajas (Wyl. rdul)
  2. tamas (Wyl. mun pa)
  3. sattva (Wyl. snying stobs)

Translations

  • S. Dasgupta, in his A History of Indian Philosophy, translates sattva as “intelligence stuff”, rajas as “energy-stuff” and tamas as “mass-stuff.”
  • In their translation of the Bodhicharyavatara, the Padmakara Translation Group call sattva “pleasure”, rajas “pain” and tamas “neutrality”.
  • Jeffrey Hopkins translates them more literally as motility or activity (rajas), darkness (tamas) and lightness (sattva).