檢視 Wisdom 的原始碼

[[Image:Manjushri.jpg|frame|[[Mañjushri]], embodiment of all the buddhas' wisdom]]
'''Wisdom''' translates two different Sanskrit and Tibetan terms:

#(Skt. ''prajñā''; Tib. [[ཤེས་རབ་]], ''sherab''; [[Wyl.]] ''shes rab''), the sixth of the [[six paramitas]], defined as the precise discernment of all things and events. <br>
#(Skt. ''jñāna''; Tib. [[ཡེ་ཤེས་]], ''yeshe''; [[Wyl.]] ''ye shes''), which is sometimes translated as [[primordial wisdom]]. One of the [[two accumulations]].

==Prajña/Sherab==
===Etymology===
[[Ringu Tulku Rinpoche]] says:

:"'''Sherab''' consists of the syllable ཤེས་ ''shé'', which means ‘knowing’ and རབ་ ''rab'' which means ‘excellent’ or ‘best’. So it is the best knowledge, the best form of knowing. It is knowing correctly, clearly and fully."

===Definition===
[[Patrul Rinpoche]] says:

:"Wisdom is identified as the recognition during the formal meditation session that all phenomena are empty, and the knowledge during the post-meditation phase that all phenomena are unreal, like a magical illusion or a dream."

===Subdivisions===
[[Chökyi Drakpa]] says:

:"Through the wisdom that comes from '''hearing''', you are able to recognize the disturbing emotions. Then, through the wisdom that comes from '''reflection''', you are able to overcome the disturbing emotions temporarily. And finally, through the wisdom that comes through '''meditation''', you conquer completely the enemy of negative emotions and obtain the confidence of knowing inexpressible and inconceivable reality with the wisdom of discriminating awareness."

==Jñana/Yeshe==
[[Ringu Tulku Rinpoche]] says:

:"In the word ཡེ་ཤེས་, '''yeshe''', ཡེ་, ''yé'' is short for ཡེ་ནས་, ''yé né'', which means ‘right from the beginning’ or ‘primordially’. Some people translate it as ‘pristine’ or 'pure', meaning that it is untouched and unstained, and has been there all the time. It is the way it always was. So yeshe is discovered with [[ཤེས་རབ་]], sherab. Yeshe is understood by sherab, or approached by sherab."

==The Difference Between Sherab and Yeshe==
[[Ringu Tulku Rinpoche]] says:

:"The difference between sherab and yeshe is very subtle and slight. But I think we can say that yeshe is the most natural state of our awareness or consciousness, which is unstained, uncontrived and completely ordinary. It is there all the time, but we don’t recognize it. It is sherab that brings about the recognition, but of course they are not two separate things."

[[Thinley Norbu]] writes:
:"The Tibetan words ''sherab'' and ''yeshe'' appear again and again in [the teachings] because they are connected with enlightenment. It is important to give an explanation of these words because of the tendency to materialize and separate them, which is incompatible with the meaning of Dharma, which is to make noncontradiction."

==Alternative Translations==
===For Sherab===
*incisive wisdom (Light of Berotsana)
===For Prajña===
*see [[primordial wisdom]] article

==Further Reading==
*[[Thinley Norbu]], ''A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar'' (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2006), pages 158-161.

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