Three kinds of perception 三現分

The three kinds of perception (Tib. སྣང་བ་གསུམ་, Wyl. snang ba gsum) appear in the preliminaries for the Lamdré practice of the Sakya tradition:

1. impure perception (Tib. མ་དག་པའི་སྣང་བ་, ma dag pa'i snang ba)
2. mixed perception experienced by yogis through practice (Tib. རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཉམས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བ་, rnal 'byor nyams kyi snang ba)
3. pure perception (Tib. དག་པའི་སྣང་བ་, dag pa'i snang ba)

Further Reading

• Deshung Rinpoche, The Three Levels of Spiritual Perception (Boston: Wisdom, 1995, 2003)