Three sets of vows: Difference between revisions

From Rigpa Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
m (Links adapted for LH 3.0, replaced: tibetan-masters/nyingma-masters → tibetan-masters (2))
No edit summary
Line 24: Line 24:
==Tibetan Text==
==Tibetan Text==
* {{TBRCW|O1JT2627|O1JT26272JT1727$W19229|རང་བཞིན་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལམ་གྱི་ཆ་ལག་སྡོམ་པ་གསུམ་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་བསྟན་བཅོས།, ''rang bzhin rdzogs pa chen po'i lam gyi cha lag sdom pa gsum rnam par nges pa zhes bya ba'i bstan bcos/''}}, ''dom sum nam ngé'', Ascertainment of the three vows.
* {{TBRCW|O1JT2627|O1JT26272JT1727$W19229|རང་བཞིན་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལམ་གྱི་ཆ་ལག་སྡོམ་པ་གསུམ་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་བསྟན་བཅོས།, ''rang bzhin rdzogs pa chen po'i lam gyi cha lag sdom pa gsum rnam par nges pa zhes bya ba'i bstan bcos/''}}, ''dom sum nam ngé'', Ascertainment of the three vows.
==Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha==
*[[Ringu Tulku Rinpoche]], [[Dharma Mati]], Germany, 24 May 2018


==Notes==
==Notes==
Line 41: Line 44:


[[Category:Vows and commitments]]
[[Category:Vows and commitments]]
[[Category: Enumerations]]
[[Category:Enumerations]]
[[Category:03-Three]]
[[Category:03-Three]]

Revision as of 14:56, 16 July 2018

Ngari Panchen

The three sets of vows (Skt. trisaṃvara; Tib. སྡོམ་གསུམ་, dom sum; Wyl. sdom gsum) are:

  1. the vows of pratimoksha or of individual liberation (Tib. སོ་ཐར་གྱི་སྡོམ་པ་, sotar gyi dompa);
  2. the bodhisattva vows (Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྡོམ་པ་, changchub sempé dompa);
  3. the samayas of the secret mantrayana (Tib. གསང་སྔགས་ཀྱི་སྡོམ་པ་, sang ngag kyi dompa).

An alternative list is:

  1. The vows of pratimoksha;
  2. the dhyana vows; and
  3. the vows of undefilement.

Essence of the Vows

Dudjom Rinpoche said:

  • To abandon entirely all negative intentions and actions of body, speech and mind that might cause harm to others is the essence of the pratimoksha, or vows of individual liberation.
  • To practise wholeheartedly all types of virtue that bring benefit to others is the essence of the bodhisattva's vows.
  • At the root of these two is taming one's own unruly mind by means of mindfulness, vigilance and conscientiousness, and training oneself to recognize the all-encompassing purity of appearance and existence. This is the essence of the vows of secret mantra.[1]

Major Texts

Tibetan Text

Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

Notes

Further Reading

  • Geshe Sonam Rinchen, The Bodhisattva Vow, translated and edited by Ruth Sonam, Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2000
  • Jamgön Kongtrul Rinpoche, The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Five: Buddhist Ethics, Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2003
  • Lama Mipham's Commentary to Nagarjuna's Stanzas for a Novice Monk and Tsongkhapa's Essence of the Ocean of Vinaya, translated by Glen H. Mullin and Lobsang Rapgay, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1978
  • Ngari Panchen, Perfect Conduct: The Absolute Certainty of the Three Vows with commentary by Dudjom Rinpoche, Boston: Wisdom, 1996
  • Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen, A Clear Differentiation of the Three Codes: Essential Distinctions among the Individual Liberation, Great Vehicle, and Tantric Systems, translated by Jared Rhoton, New York: SUNY, 2002
  • Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich. Three-Vow Theories in Tibetan Buddhism: A Comparative Study of Major Traditions from the Twelfth through Nineteenth Centuries. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2002
  • Tsongkhapa, Tantric Ethics: An Explanation of the Precepts for Buddhist Vajrayana Practice, translated by Gareth Sparham, Boston: Wisdom, 2005

External Links