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Meaning [ edit ] The Sanskrit word प्रज्ञा ( Prajña ) is the compound of "प्र ( pra- )" which prefix means – before, forward, fulfiller, and used as the intensifier but rarely as a separate word [ 1 ] and "ज्ञ ( jna )" which means - knowing or familiar with. [ 2 ]
Buddhaghosa specifies paññā in relation to Buddhist meditation as being specifically vipassanā-paññā ("insight wisdom"), meaning insight knowledge endowed with virtue. [ 14 ] Buddhaghosa defines vipassanā-paññā as “knowing in a particular mode separate from the modes of perceiving ( sañjānana ) and cognizing ( vijjānana )”. [ 6 ]
V.S. Apte provides fourteen different meanings for the Sanskrit word prāṇa (प्राण) including breath or respiration; [4] the breath of life, vital air, principle of life (usually plural in this sense, there being five such vital airs generally assumed, but three, six, seven, nine, and even ten are also spoken of); [4] [5] energy or ...
The Sanskrit word Prajñā means "Jñāna or Chaitanya (consciousness)", [6] [7] and spontaneous concept [8] [note 1].Brahman is the Absolute, [9] [Web 4] Consciousness, [9] Infinite [Web 4] and "Supreme Truth".
Expositions of the hidden meaning which become the more frequent the more the original meaning becomes obscured; Any reference to the Dharma body of the Buddha as anything different from a term for the collection of his teachings; A more and more detailed doctrine of the graded stages of a Bodhisattva's career.
Madhvacharya (IAST: Madhvācārya; pronounced [mɐdʱʋaːˈtɕaːrjɐ]; 1199–1278 CE [5] or 1238–1317 CE [6]), also known as Purna Prajna (IAST: Pūrṇa-Prajña) and Ānanda Tīrtha, was an Indian philosopher, theologian and the chief proponent of the Dvaita (dualism) school of Vedanta.
Taijasa (Sanskrit: तैजस), which means endowed with light, is one of the many different levels of existence which the Jiva experiences due to the activity of Maya; it is the second of the three stages of consciousness that are part of the individual order of the Jiva.
(Akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning "sky", "space" or "aether") In the religion of theosophy and the philosophical school called anthroposophy, the Akashic records are a compendium of all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future in terms of all entities and life forms, not just ...