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'''Three secret profound empowerments''' — three [[empowerment]]s conferred as an entry point to the practice of [[Mahayoga]]. They correspond to the last three of the [[four empowerments]]:
'''Three secret profound empowerments''' — three [[empowerment]]s conferred as an entry point to the practice of [[Mahayoga]]. They correspond to the last three of the [[four empowerments]]:
#the secret empowerment (Wyl. ''gsang ba'i dbang''; Skt. ''guhyābhiṣeka''),
#the secret empowerment (Skt. ''guhyābhiṣeka''; Tib. གསང་བའི་དབང་, ''sangwé wang'',  [[Wyl.]] ''gsang ba'i dbang''),
#the knowledge-wisdom empowerment (Wyl. ''shes rab ye shes kyi dbang''; Skt. ''prajñājñānābhiṣeka'')
#the knowledge-wisdom empowerment (Skt. ''prajñājñānābhiṣeka''; Tib. ཤེས་རབ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་དབང་, ''sherab yeshe kyi wang'', Wyl. ''shes rab ye shes kyi dbang'')
#the [[precious word empowerment]] (Tib. ''tsik wang rinpoche''; Wyl. ''tshig dbang rin po che'').  
#the [[precious word empowerment]] (Tib. ཚིག་དབང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, ''tsik wang rinpoche''; Wyl. ''tshig dbang rin po che'').  


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Latest revision as of 20:22, 14 June 2018

Three secret profound empowerments — three empowerments conferred as an entry point to the practice of Mahayoga. They correspond to the last three of the four empowerments:

  1. the secret empowerment (Skt. guhyābhiṣeka; Tib. གསང་བའི་དབང་, sangwé wang, Wyl. gsang ba'i dbang),
  2. the knowledge-wisdom empowerment (Skt. prajñājñānābhiṣeka; Tib. ཤེས་རབ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་དབང་, sherab yeshe kyi wang, Wyl. shes rab ye shes kyi dbang)
  3. the precious word empowerment (Tib. ཚིག་དབང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, tsik wang rinpoche; Wyl. tshig dbang rin po che).

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