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དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ། | Glossary of Terms
དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།
dkon mchog gsum
triratna
- Term
- Three Jewels
- དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།
- dkon mchog gsum
- trīṇi ratnāni
The Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha—the three objects of Buddhist refuge. In the Tibetan rendering, “the three rare and supreme ones.”
- Three Jewels
- དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།
- dkon mchog gsum
- triratna
The Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha.
- Three Jewels
- དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།
- dkon mchog gsum
- triratna
The Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha—the three objects of Buddhist refuge.
- Three Jewels
- དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།
- dkon mchog gsum
- triratna
The Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha.
- Three Jewels
- དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།
- dkon mchog gsum
- triratna
The Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha. In the Tibetan rendering, “the three rare and excellent ones.”
- Three Jewels
- དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།
- dkon mchog gsum
- trīṇi ratnāni
- Three Jewels
- དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།
- dkon mchog gsum
- triratna
The Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha.
- Three Jewels
- དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།
- dkon mchog gsum
- triratna
The Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha are three sources or objects of refuge for Buddhists. The Tibetan translators rendered the Sanskrit ratna (“jewel”) as “the [three] rare and superior ones” (dung dkar tshig mdzod chen mo, 143).
- Three Jewels
- རིན་པོ་ཆེ་གསུམ།
- rin po che gsum
- Triratna
- Three Jewels
- དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།
- dkon mchog gsum
- ratnatraya
- triratna
The Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha.
- Three Jewels
- དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།
- dkon mchog gsum
- Triratna
The three objects of refuge: the Buddha, the Dharma (his teachings), and the Saṅgha (the Buddhist community).
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- Three Jewels
- དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།
- dkon mchog gsum
- triratna
The Three Jewels are the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha.
- Three Jewels
- དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།
- dkon mchog gsum
- triratna
The Three Jewels are the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha.
- Three precious jewels
- དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།
- dkon mchog gsum
- Triratna
A collective term for the Buddha, his sacred doctrine (Dharma), and the Saṅgha, which are listed separately in this glossary.
- Three rare and precious ones
- དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།
- dkon mchog gsum
- triratna
The three objects of Buddhists’ refuge, also known as the Three Jewels: the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha.