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84000 Glossary
- 'phags pa shes rab
- Phakpa Sherab
- dmigs pa med pa'i shes rab
- Non-referential wisdom
- rdo rje lta bu'i ting nge 'dzin skad cig gcig dang ldan pa'i shes rab
- Wisdom that is instantaneously endowed with the adamantine meditative stability
- rngog blo ldan shes rab
- Ngok Loden Sherab
- shes rab
- Discernment, Discriminative awareness, Insight, Transcendent awareness, Wisdom
- shes rab 'byung gnas blo gros
- Prajñākaramati
- shes rab 'chal ba
- Stupidity
- shes rab brtsegs
- Prajñākūta, Prajñākūṭa
- shes rab go cha
- Prajñāvarman
- shes rab kyi dbang
- Wisdom empowerment
- shes rab kyi dbang po
- Faculty of wisdom
- shes rab kyi mig
- Eye of wisdom
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin ma
- Perfection of Wisdom, Prajñāpāramitā
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa
- Perfection of wisdom, Prajñāpāramitā, Transcendent perfection of wisdom
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i mdo
- Prajñāpāramitāsūtra
- shes rab kyi phung po
- Aggregate of wisdom
- shes rab kyi stobs
- Power of wisdom
- shes rab ma
- Prajñā
- shes rab nyams pa med pa
- They do not degenerate in their wisdom
- shes rab pha rol tu phyin pa
- Prajñāpāramitā
- shes rab sgron ma grangs med pa'i 'od kyi me tog gi dpal
- Prajñāpradīpāsaṃkhyeyaprabhāketuśrī
- skad cig cig dang ldan pa'i shes rab
- Instantaneous wisdom
English Glossaries
| Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary Rangjung Yeshe Tibetan-English Dharma Dictionary 3.0 <br> by Erik Pema Kunsang (2003) | No direct match. |
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| Hopkins Glossary 2015 The Uma Institute for Tibetan Studies Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Version: June 2015) <br> Jeffrey Hopkins, Editor. <br> Paul Hackett, Contributor and Technical Editor. <br> Contributors: Nathaniel Garson, William Magee, Andres Montano, John Powers, Craig Preston, Joe Wilson, Jongbok Yi <br> A PDF version of this dictionary is available for download at: www.uma-tibet.org | [know-highest]; wisdom |
679 total match(es) |
| Hopkins Definitions 2015 The Uma Institute for Tibetan Studies Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Version: June 2015) <br> Jeffrey Hopkins, Editor. <br> Paul Hackett, Contributor and Technical Editor. <br> Contributors: Nathaniel Garson, William Magee, Andres Montano, John Powers, Craig Preston, Joe Wilson, Jongbok Yi <br> A PDF version of this dictionary is available for download at: www.uma-tibet.org | No direct match. |
23 total match(es) |
| Hopkins Divisions 2015 The Uma Institute for Tibetan Studies Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Version: June 2015) <br> Jeffrey Hopkins, Editor. <br> Paul Hackett, Contributor and Technical Editor. <br> Contributors: Nathaniel Garson, William Magee, Andres Montano, John Powers, Craig Preston, Joe Wilson, Jongbok Yi <br> A PDF version of this dictionary is available for download at: www.uma-tibet.org | No direct match. |
15 total match(es) |
| Hopkins Others' English 2015 The Uma Institute for Tibetan Studies Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Version: June 2015) <br> Jeffrey Hopkins, Editor. <br> Paul Hackett, Contributor and Technical Editor. <br> Contributors: Nathaniel Garson, William Magee, Andres Montano, John Powers, Craig Preston, Joe Wilson, Jongbok Yi <br> A PDF version of this dictionary is available for download at: www.uma-tibet.org | insight; understanding; knowledge |
189 total match(es) |
| Hopkins Synonyms 1992 note | No direct match. | 0 total match(es) |
| Tsepak Rigdzin note | [prajña]/ Wisdom. Discriminative awareness that understands what is to be cultivated and what is to be abandoned. | 9 total match(es) |
| Richard Barron's glossary Richard Barron's glossary. <br> © Copyright 2002 by Turquoise Dragon Media Services. <br> Source: Rangjung Yeshe Tibetan-English Dharma Dictionary 3.0 (2003) | sublime knowing/ wisdom; transcendent knowledge |
154 total match(es) |
Tibetan-Tibetan dictionary
| ཤེས་རབ་ shes rab |
&ལཏ༏པྲཛཉཱ༔&གཏ༏་ཡུལ་ངེས་ལྔའི་ནང་གསེས།་རང་ཡུལ་གྱི་བརྟག་བྱའི་དངོས་པོ་ལ་དམིགས་ནས་དེའི་ངོ་བོ་དང་ཁྱད་པར་དང་རང་སྤྱིའི་མཚན་ཉིད་དང་བླང་དོར་ལེགས་པར་འབྱེད་པའི་ཤེས་པ་རབ་ཀྱི་མཐར་སོན་པ་ཐེ་ཚོམ་ཟློག་པའི་བྱེད་ལས་ཅན་ནོ།་དགེ་སྐྱོན་དང་ཡིན་མིན་སོགས་དབྱེ་འབྱེད་ཐུབ་པའི་ཤེས་རབ།་ཤེས་རབ་མྱུར་བ།་ཤེས་རབ་རྣོ་བ།་ཤེས་རབ་ཟབ་པ།་ཤེས་རབ་དཱངས་གསལ་ཅན།་ཤེས་རབ་རྫོགས་རྒྱུ་མེད་པ།་ཤེས་རབ་ཞན་པ།་ཤེས་རབ་གོ་ལོག་ཤེས་རབ་རལ་གྲིས་བཅད་ན་རྨ་མི་འབྱུང།་མང་པོའི་བློ་ཡིས་དཔྱད་ན་དོན་མི་འཕྱུག་མིང་གི་རྣམ་གྲངས་ལ་ཀུན་ཏུ་རིག་ཀུན་ཏུ་ཆུབ།་ཉལ་སློང།་རྣམ་དཔྱོད།་རྣམ་རིག་བྱེད།་སྤོབས་པ།་བློ་གྲོས།་བློ་ཡི་བྱེད་པོ།་ལེགས་རྟོགས་བཅས་སོ། |
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ཤེས་རབ
prajna, knowledge * [sometimes contrasted to ye shes as intellectual knowledge vs [religious] wisdom, but sometimes = shes rab pha rol phyin and contrasted w shes yon giving a similar meaning w shes rab = wisdom] [IW]
prajna, (-, absolute, sublime) wisdom, intelligence, (-, transcendent, analytical) knowledge, (-, appreciative) discrimination, discriminating awareness, appreciative understanding, SA ye shes kyi rtsal, understand (3 kinds are thos, bsam, bsgoms), (3 kinds are gnas lnga rig pa kun rdzob, gnas lugs rig pa don dam, sems can gyi don bya tshul), 1 of 10 stobs bcu, 1 of bslab pa gsum, appreciative discernment, wisdom that discriminates, sublime knowing, insight [JV]
prajna, intelligence, knowledge, discrimination, [wisdom]. insight, shag rog roommate. shes rab chung ba those who have limited knowledge. Discrimination, as one of the five object determining mental states, superior knowledge [in most contexts] - superior intelligence, or intelligence [when referring to the 51 mental factors] - wisdom [when taken as synonymous with yeshe]. Syn ye shes; superior knowledge [in most contexts]. - superior intelligence, or intelligence [when referring to the 51 mental factors]. - wisdom [when taken as synonymous with yeshe]; Wisdom, discriminating wisdom, prajna; bden don gtan la 'bebs rang dang spyi'i mtshan nyid rnam par 'byed pa'o; discriminative awareness. recognition, intelligence, to be aware of, come to understand, to know, to grasp, master, to learn, can, be able to, to realize; discriminative awareness; Discrimination, as one of the five object determining mental states. knowledge. one of the pha drug the six paramitas. discriminative awareness. insight, intelligence. shes rab chung ba those who have limited knowledge. prajna, wisdom. Syn ye shes wisdom. superior knowledge [in most contexts]. - superior intelligence, or intelligence [when referring to the 51 mental factors] - wisdom [when taken as synonymous with yeshe]. transcendent knowledge [RY]
critical acumen [in debate] [ggd] [RY]
Prajna. Knowledge or intelligence. In particular, the 'knowledge of realizing egolessness.' [RY]
the practice of wisdom [RY]
sublime knowing/ wisdom; transcendent knowledge [RB]
discriminating knowledge [RY]
insight, knowledge [thd]
Wisdom (shes rab, ye shes): 1) the ability to discern correctly, the understanding of emptiness and 2) the primordial and non-dual knowing aspect of the nature of the mind. [MR]
Skt. prajñā. 1) discerning insight, analytical insight, deep insight, discriminating insight, critical insight; 2) full knowing, full knowledge, full understanding. Erick Tsiknopoulos
Discussion
Shes rab or prajna is one of the universal mental factors that are concurrent with all cognitions. It is characterized in the sutras as fully distinguishing dharma from non-dharma—or in other words, to discriminate what is from what is not. According to the Great Vehicle, when it is free of the three spheres of knower, knowing, and known, then it becomes transcendent prajna.
The prefix pra- in the Sanskrit word means first, full, prime, and so forth. The root jna means to know. Thus the meaning is the prime knowing, or full knowing. The Tibetan word combines the verb shes (to know) with the adjective rab (best or complete). Although Tibetan lamas and texts generally describe the word to mean the "supreme knowing," to literally translate it in that way would not make sense in many contexts, which is why I prefer the translation full knowing. The Sanskrit word prajna seems second best: English speakers do not really understand what it means. Although the usage of "full knowing" is unfamiliar, at least people can have a somewhat organic sense of the meaning.
The word prajna is often also translated as discrimination, particularly when it refers to the non-transcendent mental factors. However, it does not sound right to refer to Transcendent Discrimination, and so translators use other translations for it in that context. This use of two translations for one dharma is dangerous: according to the texts on logic, there must be a one-to-one relationship of characterististics to characterized phenomenon. Since both the mental factor prajna and transcendent prajna are characterised in the sutras as "fully distinguishing dharma from not-dharma," the same translation should be used for both, else the relation of characterised and characteristic would be confused.
The word is also sometimes translated as "knowledge," but this implies the object that is known, whereas the actual word refers to the subject that knows, which is why it should be translated as "knowing."
The transcendent full knowing is also sometimes called transcendent wisdom, or the perfection of wisdom. Wisdom, however, is often used as a translation for jnana, or ye shes, so it is preferable to use a translation for prajna that maintains the distinctions between prajna and jnana. DKC