
The Three Vows of Foundational, Mahayana, and Vajrayana Buddhism
by Ngari Panchen
with commentary by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche
by Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
Year 1: Foundational Buddhism
Lay Vinaya Vows
The three sets of vows (Skt. trisaṃvara; Tib. སྡོམ་གསུམ་, dom sum; Wyl. sdom gsum) are:
1. vows of pratimoksha or of individual liberation (Tib. སོ་ཐར་གྱི་སྡོམ་པ་, sotar gyi dompa)
2. bodhisattva vows (Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྡོམ་པ་, changchub sempé dompa)
3. samayas of the secret mantrayana (Tib. གསང་སྔགས་ཀྱི་སྡོམ་པ་, sang ngag kyi dompa)
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