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"Take refuge in the three jewels, the three precious gems: the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha.The Buddha means the teacher of enlightenment; the Dharma means the teaching, enlightenment itself.It means reality, nirvana, whichis reality - that's the nice thing, that actual reality is he goal.The Sangha is the community through history of beings who are trying to implement the Dharma, who are trying themselves to become Buddhas."
Robert A. Thurman is professor of Indo-Tibetan studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University and one of the West's foremost scholars of Tibetan and Buddhism.He is the translator of The Tibetan Book of the Dead andthe author of Inner Revolution and Circling the Sacred Mountain.
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