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Buddhist Meditation Traditions in Tibet: The Union of Three Vehicles
By Georgios T. Halkias
Tibetan Buddhist literature, in all its diversity, is often arranged in a scheme of three vehicles. Each vehicle corresponds to a major turning of the ‘wheel of dharma’, according to which Buddha Śākyamuni is said to have imparted three seminal instructions to his disciples as seen fit with their mental capacities.
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