84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཞིབ་པ་ཤེས་པ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཞིབ་པ་ཤེས་པ།

  • zhib pa shes pa
  • sūkṣmajñāna
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  • subtle wisdom
  • ཞིབ་པ་ཤེས་པ།
  • zhib pa shes pa
  • sūkṣmajñāna
Definition in this text:

“Subtle wisdom” is the opposite of “coarse wisdom” (sthūlajñāna). The latter is the conventional wisdom or knowledge, and the former is the wisdom or gnosis that does not accept or reject.