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ཤེས་རབ་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ། | Glossary of Terms
ཤེས་རབ་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
shes rab pha rol tu phyin pa
Prajñāpāramitā
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The sixth of the six perfections, it refers to the profound understanding of the emptiness of all phenomena, the realization of ultimate reality. It is often personified as a female deity, worshiped as the “Mother of All Buddhas” (Sarvajinamātā).
- Perfection of wisdom
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa
- prajñāpāramitā
- Perfection of wisdom
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa
- prajñāpāramitā
The sixth of the six perfections.
- Perfection of wisdom
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa
- prajñāpāramitā
- Perfection of wisdom
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa
- prajñāpāramitā
- Perfection of Wisdom
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa
- prajñāpāramitā
The collection of discourses on the Perfection of Wisdom.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Perfection of wisdom
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa
- prajñāpāramitā
One of the six perfections (generosity, morality, and so forth). For the deity, see “Prajñāpāramitā.”
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Perfection of Wisdom
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་མ།
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin ma
- Prajñāpāramitā
The perfection of wisdom personified.
- Perfection of wisdom
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa
- prajñāpāramitā
- Prajñāpāramitā
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་མ།
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin ma
- Prajñāpāramitā
Name of a female deity.
- Prajñāpāramitā
- ཤེས་རབ་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- shes rab pha rol tu phyin pa
- Prajñāpāramitā
The Kāraṇḍavyūha is referring to the goddess who is the personification of the perfection of wisdom, and is in the feminine case. However, the Tibetan has the male ending -pa, instead of the female ending -ma, which is presently normally used for the goddess, but does not appear in the Mahāvyutpatti Sanskrit-Tibetan concordance.
- Prajñāpāramitā
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa
- Prajñāpāramitā
Transcendental wisdom, being the profound nondual understanding of the ultimate reality, or voidness, or relativity, of all things; personified as a goddess, she is worshiped as the “Mother of all Buddhas” (Sarvajinamātā).
- Prajñāpāramitā
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa
- prajñāpāramitā
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Prajñāpāramitā
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa
- Prajñāpāramitā
“Perfection of Wisdom,” one of the six perfections personified.
- Prajñāpāramitā
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་མ།
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin ma
- Prajñāpāramitā
The perfection of wisdom personified.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Prajñāpāramitā
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa
- Prajñāpāramitā
The goddess who is the personification of the perfection of wisdom.
- Perfection of insight
- ཤེས་རབ་ཕ་རོལ་ཕྱིན།
- shes rab pha rol phyin
- prajñāpāramitā
The sixth of the six perfections, it refers to the profound understanding of the emptiness of all phenomena, the realization of ultimate reality.
- Perfection of Insight
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa
- Prajñāpāramitā
The profound nondual understanding of the ultimate reality of emptiness of all things, it is personified as a goddess described as the “Mother of all Victorious Ones” (Sarvajinamātā).
- Transcendent insight
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa
- prajñāpāramitā
The sixth of the six perfections, it refers to the profound understanding of the emptiness of all phenomena, the realization of ultimate reality.
- Transcendent perfection of wisdom
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa
- prajñāpāramitā
Sixth of the six transcendent perfections.