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When explaining the ''general meaning'' according to the [[sutra]]s and the common teachings, "[[wisdom]]" means knowledge (''[[prajna]]'') which is primordially free from defilement, the basic state of [[emptiness]].  The word "essence" or ''[[hridaya]]'' means "extract" or "supreme," and is therefore compassion, the supreme path which is indispensible for accomplishing [[buddhahood]]. The ''Five Hundred Thousand Scripture'' says:
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From the wish-fulfilling tree of emptiness<br>
Appear the fruits of nonconceptual compassion.<br>
This is the root of all the awakened ones.<br>
From this they emerge, there is no doubt.
 
...a statement of explanation by [[H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]]:
 
"From emptiness endowed with the supreme of all aspects, represented in the form of the wish-fulfilling tree which encompasses all realms, appear the fruits of the twofold welfare (the welfare of self and others), the nonconceptual compassion, which is not a nihilistic void.  This is the root which is the source of the [[kayas]] and wisdoms of all the perfectly awakened ones.  From this unity of [[means and knowledge]], [[emptiness]] and [[compassion]], these emerge, there is no doubt." [[JOKYAB]]
 
Therefore related to what's given above from the ''general meaning according to the sutras and the common teachings''...'''''Wisdom Essence''''' means the "supreme path of emptiness endowed with a core of compassion."
 
([[Light of Wisdom]], vol. 1, pg. 28, et al).  [RY]

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