Lam gyi gtso bo rnam gsum

ལམ་གྱི་གཙོ་བོ་རྣམ་གསུམ།

lam gyi gtso bo rnam gsum

Three Principal Aspects of the Path

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The three principal aspects of the path, as laid out by Je Tsongkhapa, are renunciation (the determination to be free from suffering), bodhicitta (the altruistic intention to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings), and wisdom (the understanding of emptiness or dependent origination). These three are considered the heart of the Buddhist path, essential for achieving liberation and perfect enlightenment.

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Tsong kha pa. lam gyi gtso bo rnam gsum [ལམ་གྱི་གཙོ་བོ་རྣམ་གསུམ།]. [Three Principal Aspects of the Path].

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt शून्यता  Tib སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་  Ch 空 and 空門  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhi - Enlightenment or awakening. In Tibetan it is translated as "purified" (byang) and "perfected" (chub), which corresponds to Siddhartha Gautama's achievement of purifying all obscurations and perfecting or attaining all qualities associated with a buddha. Skt बोधि  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་  Ch 菩提; 悟 and 覺  

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