Tridharmacakrapravartana

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Key Term	tridharmacakrapravartana
In Tibetan Script	ཆོས་འཁོར་རིམ་པ་གསུམ་
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	chos 'khor rim pa gsum
Devanagari Sanskrit Script	त्रिधर्मचक्रप्रवर्तन
Romanized Sanskrit	tridharmacakrapravartana
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering	chökhor rimpa sum
English Standard	The Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma
Definitions
Rangjung Yeshe's English Term	Three Successive Promulgations of the Doctrinal Wheel. The first promulgation (chos 'khor dang po) at Varanasi, the intermediate promulgation (bar ma'i chos 'khor) at Vulture Peak, and the final promulgation (chos 'khor tha ma) in indefinite realms.

Three successive stages of the Buddhist teachings. Though they are traditionally attributed to the historical Buddha, modern scholarship tends to view them as developmental stages that occurred over the course of an extended period of time, with interludes of several centuries, in which we see major doctrinal shifts often based on seemingly newly emergent scriptural sources.

Three successive stages of the Buddhist teachings. Though they are traditionally attributed to the historical Buddha, modern scholarship tends to view them as developmental stages that occurred over the course of an extended period of time, with interludes of several centuries, in which we see major doctrinal shifts often based on seemingly newly emergent scriptural sources.