bsam shes

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བསམ་ཤེས
decent person [RY]

knowing another's mind, decent, reading another's mind, consciousness, understanding, consciousness [JV]

1) knowing how to think; 2) decent person; 3) understanding, consciousness, awareness

1) sympathy, empathy, sensitivity; 2) understanding others' minds or thoughts; 3) awareness, understanding, consciousness, cognizance (usually in the sense of understanding situations or other people); 4) a decent person; 5) decency; 6) appreciation. The corresponding verb is bsam shes byed, the infinitive form of which is bsam shes byed pa. The main meanings in modern Tibetan are "sympathy" or "appreciation", i.e. དངོས་གནས་ཡ་རབས་ཤིག་བྱེད་ན་བཀའ་དྲིན་བསམ་ཤེས་བྱེད་དགོས་, ཕན་ཚུན་བསམ་ཤེས།. Erick Tsiknopoulos