Sarvajñatā
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sarvajñatā (P. sabbaññu; T. kun shes/thams cad mkhyen pa; C. yiqie zhi 一切智). Translated as “all-knower,” “all-knowledge,” “omniscience,” etc.
The Princeton Dictionary states:
- ... in early versions of the perfection of wisdom (prajñāpāramitā) sūtras, the name for a buddha’s knowledge; later, the term was used for the knowledge of a sravaka or pratyekabuddha, in contrast to a buddha’s knowledge of all aspects (sarvākārajñatā), which is reached by cultivating a bodhisattva’s knowledge of the paths (mārgajñatā).
- The “all” (sarva) means all the grounds (vastu) of the knowledge of defiled (saṃkliṣṭa) and pure (viśuddha, see viśuddhi) dharmas systematized in the Four Noble Truths.[1]
The Tibetan translations for this term (kun shes and thams cad mkhyen pa) also the following meanings:[2]
- a general term for "omniscience"
- an epithet for the Buddha
- a title for a high lama
Notes
- ↑ Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. sarvajñatā.
- ↑
ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University