ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ། | Glossary of Terms
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ཀུན་མཁྱེན།
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ་ཉིད།
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ།
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན།
- ཐམས་ཅད་ཤེས་པ་ཉིད།
- thams cad mkhyen pa
- thams cad mkhyen pa nyid
- kun mkhyen
- thams cad mkhyen
- thams cad shes pa nyid
- sarvajña
- sarvajñatā
- sarvajñā
- sarvajñatva
- Term
- Omniscient One
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ།
- thams cad mkhyen pa
- sarvajña
An epithet of the Buddha.
- Omniscient One
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ།
- thams cad mkhyen pa
- sarvajñā
- omniscient one
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ།
- thams cad mkhyen pa
- sarvajña
An epithet of a buddha.
- Omniscient One
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ།
- thams cad mkhyen pa
- sarvajña
An epithet of the Buddha.
- omniscient one
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ།
- thams cad mkhyen pa
- sarvajña
An epithet of the buddhas. The homage to the Omniscient One at the beginning of a Buddhist scripture usually indicates that it belongs to the Vinaya Piṭaka.
- Omniscient One
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ།
- thams cad mkhyen pa
- sarvajña
An epithet of the Buddha and a title for high lamas in the Tibetan tradition.
- Omniscient One
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ།
- thams cad mkhyen pa
- sarvajña
An epithet of a buddha.
- omniscient one
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན།
- thams cad mkhyen
- sarvajña
- omniscient one
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ།
- thams cad mkhyen pa
An epithet of the Buddha.
- omniscience
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ།
- thams cad mkhyen pa
- sarvajña
See “three types of omniscience.”
- omniscience
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ།
- thams cad mkhyen pa
- sarvajñā
The all-knowing state of complete buddhahood that is the goal of the Great Vehicle path.
- omniscience
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ་ཉིད།
- thams cad mkhyen pa nyid
- sarvajñatā
The state of knowing all possible and actual states of affairs of past, present, and future (total omniscience) or knowing all that is most relevant to soteriology, the basic nature of reality (essential omniscience).
- omniscience
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ།
- thams cad mkhyen pa
- sarvajñatā
This refers to the gnosis of the Buddha, with which there is nothing he does not know. However, not to confuse “omniscience” with the theistic conception of an omniscient god, the “everything” here is specifically everything about the source of the predicament of worldly life and the way of transcendence of that world through liberation. Since “everything” is only an abstract term without any particular referent, once we are clear about the implications of infinity, it does not refer to any sort of ultimate totality, since a totality can only be relative, i.e., a totality within a particular frame of reference. Thus, as Dharmakīrti has remarked, “it is not a question of the Buddha’s knowing the number of fish in the ocean,” i.e., since there are infinity of fish in infinity of oceans in infinity of worlds and universes. The Buddha’s omniscience, rather, knows how to develop and liberate any fish in any ocean, as well as all other living beings.
- omniscience
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ་ཉིད།
- thams cad mkhyen pa nyid
- sarvajñatā
This refers to the gnosis or omniscience of the Buddha, the “All-Knowing” or “Omniscient” One.
- omniscience
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ།
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ་ཉིད།
- thams cad mkhyen pa
- thams cad mkhyen pa nyid
- sarvajñatā
This refers to the gnosis or omniscience of the Buddha, the “All-Knowing” or “Omniscient” One.
- all-knowing
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ།
- thams cad mkhyen pa
- sarvajña
- All-Knowing One
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ།
- thams cad mkhyen pa
- sarvajña
An epithet of the buddhas. Salutation to the All-Knowing One at the beginning of a Buddhist text typically indicates its designation in the Vinaya Piṭaka.
- all-knowledge
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ་ཉིད།
- ཐམས་ཅད་ཤེས་པ་ཉིད།
- thams cad mkhyen pa nyid
- thams cad shes pa nyid
- sarvajñatva
See “three types of omniscience.”
- omniscient
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ།
- ཀུན་མཁྱེན།
- thams cad mkhyen pa
- kun mkhyen
- sarvajña
- state of all-knowing
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ་ཉིད།
- thams cad mkhyen pa nyid
- sarvajñatva
The state of knowing all possible and actual states of affairs of the past, present, and future (i.e., total omniscience) or knowing all that is most soteriologically relevant, the basic nature of reality (i.e., essential omniscience).