ཕུང་པོ་གསུམ། | Glossary of Terms
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ཕུང་པོ་གསུམ།
- phung po gsum
- trirāśi
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A set of three groups or types (rāśi) of things or their characteristics, to which the thus-gone ones are said to awaken. Following the definition in the Bodhisattvabhūmi, cited in Edgerton’s entry on rāśi (454.2), these are (1) dharmas that are connected to an object (arthopasaṃhita), (2) dharmas that are connected to the absence of an object (anarthopasaṃhita), and (3) dharmas that bear no relation to any object whatsoever (naivarthopasaṃhita). Another use of this term refers to “three groups of beings” and classifies them as (1) dedicated to falsehood (mithyātvaniyata), (2) dedicated to truth (samyakniyata), and (3) undetermined (aniyata), but former seems intended here.