Triskandhaka
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triskandhaka (T. phung po gsum pa ཕུང་པོ་གསུམ་པ་; C. sanju; J. sanju; K. samch’wi 三聚). Literally, "three heaps". A Mahayana confessional practice that is recited as a means for mending breaches of a bodhisattva’s discipline.[1][2] There are multiple variations of this three-part practice.
One common version is:[1]
- the practice of confessing non-virtues (pāpadeśanā སྡིག་པ་བཤགས་པ།)
- the practice of rejoicing (anumodana རྗེས་སུ་ཡི་རང་བ།)
- the practice of dedication (pariṇāmana བསྔོ་བ། / དགེ་བསྔོ་བ། )
Another version has the following components:[1]
- confessing non-virtues (pāpadeśanā སྡིག་པ་བཤགས་པ།)
- rejoicing at the virtues (anumodana རྗེས་སུ་ཡི་རང་བ།)
- turning the wheel of doctrine (ཆོས་འཁོར་བསྐོར་བ།)
According to the Princeton Dictionary, this practice "may have served as the foundation for more elaborate tantric liturgies", such as the seven-branch practice (saptāṇga pūja).[2]
See also
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2
phung po gsum pa, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. triskandhaka.
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University
