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ཡེ་ཤེས་

ye shes

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1. 'brog mi shAkya ye shes

   Drokmi

2. 'chi ba'i 'du shes

   Perception of death

3. 'da' ka ye shes

   Wisdom of the hour of death

4. 'das pa dang ma 'ongs pa dang da ltar byung ba'i las rnams dang las yang dag par len pa rnams kyi rnam par smin pa gnas kyi sgo dang rgyu'i sgo nas yang dag pa ji lta ba bzhin du rab tu shes pa

   Definitive knowledge, through possibilities and causes, of the maturation of past, future, and present actions, and of those who undertake such actions

5. 'das pa'i dus la ma chags ma thogs pa'i ye shes gzigs par 'jug go

   Engage in the perception of pristine cognition which is unobstructed and unimpeded with respect to the past

6. 'du shes

   Clear understanding, Identification, Intellect, Notions, Perception, Perceptions

7. 'du shes 'jug

   Maintain notions

8. 'du shes bzhi

   Four perceptions

9. 'du shes dang tshor ba 'gog pa bsgrubs te gnas pa

   One achieves and abides in the cessation of all perceptions and feelings

10. 'du shes dgu

    Nine contemplations of impurity

11. 'du shes drug

    Six aspects of perception

12. 'du shes kyi phung po

    Aggregate of perceptions

13. 'du shes med 'du shes med min skye mched

    Sphere of neither perception nor non-perception

14. 'du shes med 'du shes med min skye mched bsgrubs te gnas pa

    One achieves and abides in the sense field of neither perception nor non-perception

15. 'du shes med min gyi skye mched

    Sense field of neither perception nor non-perception

16. 'du shes med min gyi snyoms 'jug

    Meditative absorption of neither perception nor non-perception

17. 'du shes tha dad pa nyid med pa

    Non-differentiation of perception

18. 'gog pa shes pa

    Knowledge of the cessation of suffering

19. 'jig rten kyi khams du ma pa khams sna tshogs pa yang dag pa ji lta ba bzhin du rab tu shes pa

    Definitive knowledge of multiple world systems and diverse dispositions

20. 'jig rten thams cad la mngon par mi dga' ba'i 'du shes

    Perception of disinterest in all mundane things

21. 'od kyis rnam par rtse ba mngon par shes pa

    Sublime Knowledge Displayed with Luminosity

22. 'phags pa shes rab

    Phakpa Sherab

23. ban de ye shes sde

    Bandé Yeshé Dé, Bhande Yeshe De, Yeshé Dé

24. bdag med pa'i sdug bsngal gyi 'du shes

    Perception of non-self

25. bdag tu 'du shes

    Notion of self

26. bde ba'i 'du shes

    Notion that there is happiness

27. bsod nams dang ye shes kyi tshogs

    Stores of merit and wisdom

28. bya ba grub pa'i ye shes

    Action-accomplishing wisdom, All-accomplishing wisdom

29. bya ba shes pa mngon sum du bya ba shes pa'i mngon par shes pa

    Extrasensory power realizing knowledge of [miraculous] activities

30. cang shes kauN+Di n+ya

    Ājñātakauṇḍinya

31. cang shes pa

    Thoroughbred

32. chos kyi dbyings kyi ye shes

    Wisdom of the sphere of phenomena

33. chos shes pa

    Knowledge of phenomena

34. da ltar byung ba'i dus la ma chags ma thogs pa'i ye shes gzigs par 'jug go

    Engage in the perception of pristine cognition which is unobstructed and unimpeded with respect to the present

35. dbang po dang stobs dang byang chub kyi yan lag dang rnam par thar pa dang bsam gtan dang ting nge 'dzin dang snyoms par 'jug pa'i kun nas nyon mongs pa dang rnam par byang ba dang ldang pa shes pa yang dag pa ji lta ba bzhin du rab tu shes pa

    Definitive knowledge of all the afflicted and purified mental states and their emergence, with respect to the faculties, powers, branches of enlightenment, aspects of liberation, meditative concentrations, meditative stabilities, and formless absorption

36. de bzhin gshegs pa'i thams cad mkhyen pa nyid kyi ye shes

    Pristine cognition of omniscience

37. dka' ba'i 'du shes

    Perception of hardship

38. dmigs pa med pa'i shes rab

    Non-referential wisdom

39. gang zag la bdag med par phyogs gcig shes pa

    Partial understanding of selflessness with respect to personal identity

40. glang po che cang shes

    Thoroughbred elephant

41. gnas la yang gnas su yang dag pa ji lta ba bzhin du rab tu shes pa

    Definitive knowledge that things which are possible are indeed possible

42. gnas ma yin pa la yang gnas ma yin par yang dag pa ji lta ba bzhin du rab tu shes pa

    Definitive knowledge that things which are impossible are indeed impossible

43. ji lta ba bzhin shes pa

    Knowledge that is definitive

44. kun 'byung ba shes pa

    Knowledge of the origin of suffering

45. kun rdzob shes pa

    Knowledge of relative appearances

46. kun shes kau N+Di nya

    Ājñātakauṇḍinya

47. kun shes kauN Di nya

    Ājñātakauṇḍinya

48. kun shes kauN+Din+ya

    Ājñātakauṇḍinya

49. kun shes kauNDi nya

    Ājñātakauṇḍinya

50. kun shes pa dang ldan pa'i dbang po

    Faculties endowed with the knowledge of all things... further results

English Glossaries

Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary Rangjung Yeshe Tibetan-English Dharma Dictionary 3.0 <br> by Erik Pema Kunsang (2003)	No direct match.	466 total match(es)
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	pristine wisdom; exalted wisdom; wisdom	670 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	cognition; knowledge	181 total match(es)
Hopkins Synonyms 1992 note	No direct match.	1 total match(es)
Tsepak Rigdzin note	No direct match.	20 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)	timeless awareness [in mahayana, vajrayana and Dzogchen contexts] pristine awareness [in shravaka and pratyekabuddha contexts]	150 total match(es)

Tibetan-Tibetan dictionary

བོད་རྒྱ་ཚིག་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ། Bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo <br> 1985, Mi dmangs dpe skrun khang, Beijing.

ཡེ་ཤེས་ ye shes

༡༽་ཡེ་ནས་གནས་པའི་ཤེས་པ་སྟེ་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རྒྱུད་ལ་རང་བཞིན་གྱིས་གནས་པའི་སྟོང་གསལ་གྱི་རིག་པ།་༢༽་འཕགས་པའི་མཁྱེན་པ།

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Tibetan-Sanskrit dictionary

Negi (Tibetan-Sanskrit) Tibetan-Sanskrit dictionary <br> J.S. Negi <br> Dictionary Unit, Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath (January 1993)

ye shes

saṃ. jñānam i. tattvajñānam — sogs pa'i mtshan nyid ni rnam par shes pa'o/ /bri ba'i mtshan nyid ni ye shes so// upacayalakṣaṇaṃ vijñānam, apacayalakṣaṇaṃ jñānam la.a.117kha/64; 'dir sems can thams cad kyi snying gi nang na gnas pa ni ye shes so// de yang gzhom du med pa'i sgra ste rtag tu nA da'i mtshan nyid do// iha sarvasattvānāṃ hṛdayāntargataṃ jñānam, taccānāhatadhvaniḥ sadā nādalakṣaṇaḥ vi.pra.127ka/3.54; de phyir de yi bsgrub bya ru/ /gyur pa'i ye shes rnam dpyad bya'i/ /'di yis srin bu'i grangs mkhyen pa/ /nged la 'gar yang nyer mkho med// tasmādanuṣṭheyagataṃ jñānamasya vicāryatām kīṭasaṃkhyāparijñānaṃ tasya naḥ kvopayujyate pra.vā.108kha/1.33; rnam par smin pa de las bzlog/ /bde ba'i ye shes za ba nyid// vipākaṃ tadviparyāsaṃ sukhajñānasya bhuñjanam he.ta.17ka/54; sangs rgyas pa rnams kyi ye shes ni sems can thams cad la snying rje'i bdag nyid can zhi ba'i las ston par byed pa'o// śāntakarmadeśakaṃ bauddhānāṃ jñānaṃ sarvasattvakaruṇātmakam vi.pra.273kha/2.98; rnam par bcad pa zla ba phyed pa'i rnam pa'o// thig le zlum po'o// ye shes rtse mo'i rnam pa'o// visargo arddhacandrākāro bindurvṛtto jñānaṃ śikhākāram vi.pra.157ka/1.5; bhagaḥ — b+ha gaM ye shes skye gnas 'dod// śrī.ko.173ka ii. = stong pa śūnyam — ye shes gzugs las so zhes pa stong pa'i gzugs las so// jñānabimbācchūnyabimbāditi vi.pra.67ka/4.119 iii. = rdo rje kuliśam — nam mkha'i khams ni pad ma la/ /b+ha ga zhes bya ye shes brjod// khadhātāviti padmeṣu jñānaṃ bhagamiti smṛtam he.ta.9kha/28; jñānaṃ kuliśam yo.ra.125 iv. = 'dod pa kāmaḥ — kun rdzob kyis ye shes 'dod pa ste de'i me ni 'dod pa'i me'o// 'dod pa'i me des rab tu rgyas par gyur pa na saṃvṛtyā jñānaṃ kāmastasya tejaḥ kāmāgnistena kāmāgninā prabuddhā satī vi.pra.63ka/4.110 vijñānam — de la de 'dra'i ye shes ni/ /rim gyis gtso bo las byung 'gyur// tatra tādṛśi vijñāne krameṇa bhavati prabhoḥ ta.sa.132kha/1127; de thams cad mkhyen pa'i ye shes 'di la thams cad du dad pas rjes su 'brang zhing chos nyid tshad mar bgyis te 'di ltar mos pa zhes bgyi 'o// so'tra sarvatra śraddhānusārī sarvajñajñāne dharmatāṃ pramāṇīkṛtya evamadhimukta iti a.sā.8ka/5; cetaḥ — spyi de rnal 'byor ye shes des/ /'dzin par mdzad pa ma yin no// sāmānyaṃ tasya naitena grahaṇaṃ yogicetasā ta.sa.132kha/1128; de nyid rtog pa'i ye shes kyis rnam par gcod par byed pa'i phyir tasyaiva ca parāmarśacetasā vyavacchedaḥ kriyate ta.pa.329ka/1126; pā. jñānam ādarśādayaḥ — sangs rgyas rnams kyi ye shes ni rnam pa bzhi ste/ me long lta bu'i ye shes dang mnyam pa nyid kyi ye shes dang so sor rtog pa'i ye shes dang bya ba grub pa'i ye shes so// caturvidhaṃ buddhānāṃ jñānam — ādarśajñānaṃ samatājñānaṃ pratyavekṣājñānaṃ kṛtyānuṣṭhānajñānaṃ ca sū.vyā.160ka/48 pāramitābhedaḥ — sbyin dang tshul khrims bzod brtson 'grus/ /bsam gtan dang ni shes rab thabs/ /smon lam stobs dang ye shes dang/ /'di dag pha rol phyin pa bcu// dānaṃ śīlaṃ kṣamā vīryaṃ dhyānaṃ prajñā upāyatā praṇidhānaṃ balaṃ jñānametāḥ pāramitā daśa ma.vi.44ka/154; dra. ye shes kyi pha rol tu phyin pa/ tattvāvabodhaḥ — ye shes chags bral dbang phyug ni/ /mi zad bcu dang ldan pa can/ /bde byed ces ni gang grags pa/ /de yang bdag bsam pa yis shes// jñānaṃ vairāgyamaiśvaryamiti yo'pi daśāvyayaḥ śaṅkaraḥ śrūyate so'pi jñānavānātmavittayā ta.sa.116kha/1011; u.pa. jñānī — byang chub sems dpa' sems dpa' chen po shes pa dam pa'i ye shes dang jñānottarajñāninā ca bodhisattvena mahāsattvena ga.vyū.276ka/3.

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ཡེ་ཤེས
ཡེ་ཤེས་
wisdom [IW]

Pristine Cognition [GD]

timeless awareness [in Mahayana, Vajrayana and Dzogchen contexts] pristine awareness [in shravaka and pratyekabuddha contexts] [RB]

jnana, (exalted, primordial) wisdom, (primal, transcending, original, unitary, authentic, pure, absolute, a priori, genuine, spiritual, ever-fresh, pristine) awareness, wakefulness, pristine cognition, mystic illumination, gnosis, understanding by peak experience, (intuitive, transcending, comprehensive, true) knowledge, SA mched pa'i ye shes, mnyam nyid ye shes, me long ye shes, chos dbyings ye shes, bya sgrub ye shes, sor rtog ye shes, perfect absolute divine wisdom, pristine wisdom, primordial awareness, timeless awareness [JV]

wisdom, original wakefulness. Basic cognizance independent of intellectual constructs. There are also the five wisdoms, aspects of how the cognitive quality of buddha nature functions: the dharmadhatu wisdom, mirror-like wisdom, wisdom of equality, discriminating wisdom and all-accomplishing wisdom [RY]

knowledge, original wakefulness, gnosis, cognition, wisdom, primal awareness, pristine awareness, Primordial Awareness, [ [[jnana] ]]; pristine cognition. Innate wakefulness, intelligence, self-born awareness, primal awareness, wisdom, one of the phar phyin bcu the ten paramitas, pristine awareness, ever-fresh awareness, exalted wisdom / body, intuition [intuitive wisdom], gnosis, wisdom mind, primal knowledge, jnana. Syn ye gnas kyi shes pa; 'wisdom', [primordial knowing, original cognition, wakefulness, awareness]. Innate wakefulness, Jnana, cognition, knowledge, divine wisdom, ever-fresh awareness, pristine awareness, exalted wisdom / body, primordial wisdom, intelligence, intuition [intuitive wisdom], gnosis, wisdom mind, primal knowledge, jnana, pristine cognition / awareness. pristine wisdom, [or wisdom if otherwise qualified. i.e. mirror-like wisdom]. one of the phar phyin bcu the ten paramitas. primordial wisdom/wakefulness, Wisdom/Pristine wisdom [RY]

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. jñāna. 1) deep wisdom, penetrating wisdom, intuitive wisdom, mystic wisdom, primal wisdom, primordial wisdom, original wisdom, timeless wisdom, pristine wisdom, wisdom; 2) deep gnosis, penetrating gnosis, intuitive gnosis, mystic gnosis, primal gnosis, primordial gnosis, original gnosis, timeless gnosis, pristine gnosis, gnosis; 3) deep wakefulness, penetrating wakefulness, intuitive wakefulness, mystic wakefulness, primal wakefulness, primordial wakefulness, original wakefulness, timeless wakefulness, pristine wakefulness, wakefulness; 4) deep awareness, penetrating awareness, intuitive awareness, mystic awareness, primal awareness, primordial awareness, original awareness, timeless awareness, pristine awareness, awareness; 5) deep knowing, penetrating knowing, intuitive knowing, mystic knowing, primal knowing, primordial knowing, original knowing, timeless knowing, pristine knowing, knowing; 6) deep knowledge, penetrating knowledge, intuitive knowledge, mystic knowledge, primal knowledge, primordial knowledge, original knowledge, timeless knowledge, pristine knowledge, knowledge. The most appropriate English translation mostly depends on the vehicle, namely, Hinayāna, Mahāyāna, Vajrayāna or Atiyoga/Mahāmudrā, as each vehicle has a somewhat different connotation for jñāna. Erick Tsiknopoulos