Buddhist 'Group of three' related to teaching others?

[hypa3000]

Hi All,

As we know Tibetan Buddhism love's lists / groups of three's (among other numbers)

eg.
Three Jewels - Buddha, Dharma, Sangha
etc. etc.

Can anyone please recommend a comprehensive Buddhist lists of three?

Specifically I am looking for a group of three related to phases of being ready to teach others?

ie. Not the Three turnings of the Wheel of Dharma, but more in the context of pre-requisites for / phases of teaching others.

Possibly similar to Three trainings - Listening, Reflecting, Meditating
and how 'Realization occurs in three stages: understanding, experience, and true realization.'

I could have read it online or in a Tibetan Buddhist book eg. Any books / references by HHDL / Dilgo Khyentse / Patrul Rinpoche / Khenpo Tslutrim Gyamtso Rinpoche / Tulku Urgyen / Atisha / Padmasambhava etc. etc. ) but can't recall the exact source and have a really strong compulsion to find out, (been looking all day through books and my notes) so any pointers will be much appreciated, Thank you

MORE CLUES:

Possibly (but not definitely) related to and / or in context of:

Giving the gift of Dharma
Teacher Disciple relationship eg. Milarepa / Gampopa
Lojong Mind Training Slogans
Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness
Six Paramitas / Heart of Compassion / 37 Practices of the Bodhisattva
Atisha / Padampa Sangye / Patrul Rinpoche / Padmasambhava

eg.


BENEFITING OTHERS - Longchenpa

There are six ways in which such attainment contributes to your ability to benefit others:

Having trained in compassion, you love everyone without bias.

With consummate realization, you dissolve the confusion of believing that things have independent identity.

Familiar with the mental capacity of beings, you become skilled in the means to create auspicious circumstances.

You experience everything you perceive as an ally, free in its true nature.

Imbued with blessings, you are able to transform the: perceptions of others.

When the time is right for you to guide others, those with faith will gather around you.

Thus, all auspicious circumstances, both external and internal, will come together.

[Aemilius]

I don't know of a group of three, but there are the Four means of conversion or Four means of unification (of Sangha), Sangrahavastu(ni) in sanskrit, Sanghavattuni in pali.
They are explained in Har Dayal's Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature:
Dana, giving
Priya-vadita, loving speech
Artha-carya or artha-kriya, putting into practice
Saman-arthata, the pursuit of himself of that aim to which he incites others


There are also Four analytical or perfect knowledges (catuḥ-pratisaṃvid):
Perfect knowledge of meaning (artha-pratisamvid)
Perfect knowledge of Dharma (dharma-pratisamvid)
Perfect knowledge of language (nirukti-pratisamvid)
Perfect knowledge of courageous eloquence (pratibhāna-pratisamvid))

[hypa3000]

Not sure if this is the answer to my original post here, but it could well be:

"The term ‘lama’, the object of respect and veneration, also has many enumerations and divisions. Someone with good qualities that benefit others and who has also individually acquired a little connection with the Dharma, is called a ‘general master’. One who gives the vows of refuge and so on, to those who enter the door of holy Dharma, is a ‘lama who guides to the entrance of Dharma’. One who gives profound empowerments is an ‘empowerment commitment lama’. The object of confession of impaired and broken [commitments] is a ‘lama who restores breaches’. A teacher of the tantras of the Dharma is a ‘lama who releases the mindstream’. The one who imparts profound foremost instructions is a ‘foremost instruction scripture lama’. There are these and many others, but in particular, one who completes the three: giving empowerments, teaching tantras, and imparting foremost instructions to introduce rigpa, is the ‘root lama possessed of the three kindnesses’ and is therefore more important than others."

Rinpoche, Dzogchen Pema Kalsang. Introduction to the Nature of Mind . Mahasandhi Publishing. Kindle Edition.

I see in the few kindle books i have, of Dzogchen Pema Kalsang Rinpoche's, that various 'groups of three' are mentioned throughout all his books

eg. Elsewhere

Alternatively, we can speak in terms of the great threefold framework, which is to cover the length of the subject, to stress the words of phrasing, and to summarise the sections. These three are taught with three examples: the leap of a tigress, the plod of a tortoise, and the poise of a lion.

To describe this in more detail, unlike the scuttles of a pika which do not cover the ground of the meaning which is taught, to cover the full length of the subject is like the leap of a tigress.

Also, unlike speaking roughly using generalities and losing the key points of meaning, to stress the words of the textual meaning is like the plodding of a tortoise. Also, unlike not differentiating the meaning of earlier and later sections like an uneven and poorly woven ball of yarn, to summarise the intermediary sections is like the poise of a lion. In this way, this text also possesses such unrivalled great elegance.

Likewise, this text that we are studying needs to be described in terms of the outline of the great threefold framework, which is the goodness of the beginning, the goodness of the middle, and the goodness of the end.