Treasury of Oral Instructions

Dzogchen Desum (rdzogs chen sde gsum). Three Sections of Dzogchen. After Garab Dorje established the six million four hundred thousand tantras of Dzogchen in the human world, his chief disciple, Manjushrimitra, arranged these tantras into three categories:

1. the Mind Section emphasizing luminosity,
2. the Space Section emphasizing emptiness,
3. and the Instruction Section emphasizing their inseparability

• Three Sections of the Great Perfection - Dzogchen Desum; terma revealed by Chokgyur Lingpa.
• See also Mind, Space and Instruction Sections.