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discriminating awareness

TECHNICAL TERM DETAILS (English)

Term discriminating awareness

Referenced by:
discrimination (alternative term)
awareness, discriminating (cross-reference only)
Tibetan shes-rab
Sanskrit prajna
Pali
Definition The mental factor that decisively discriminates between what is correct and what is incorrect, or between what is helpful and what is harmful, or between what is appropriate or what is inappropriate, or between what is reality and what is not reality. When conjoined with a bodhichitta aim, it becomes a far-reaching attitude.

TRANSLATION (French)

Translation conscience discriminante
Definition Le facteur mental qui effectue résolument une discrimination entre ce qui est correct et ce qui est incorrect, entre ce qui est utile et ce qui est nuisible, entre ce qui est approprié et ce qui est inapproprié, et entre ce qui est réalité et ce qui n'est pas réalité. Lorsqu'elle est jointe à un but de bodhicitta, elle devient une attitude à grande portée.

OTHER TRANSLATIONS

Arabic الوعي التمييزي
German unterscheidendes Gewahrsein (tib. shes-rab)
French conscience discriminante
Italian consapevolezza discriminante
Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... [know-highest]; wisdom
Russian распознавание
Vietnamese trí bát nhã, trí năng siêu việt