ཐབས་དང་ཤེས་རབ་

JH-ENG

method and wisdom; skillful means and wisdom

JH-SKT, YOGA

upAya-prajJA

JV, IW, RY

means and knowledge

IW

prajna and upaya, *, wisdom and skillful means

RY

prajna and upaya. Prajna is knowledge or intelligence; in particular, the knowledge of realizing egolessness. Upaya is the method or technique that brings about realization. skilful means and wisdom. *; Skt. prajna and upaya. Buddhahood is attained by uniting *; in Mahayana, compassion and emptiness, relative and ultimate bodhichitta. In Vajrayana, * are the stages of development and completion. According to the Kagyü schools, means refers specifically to the 'path of means,' the Six Doctrines of Naropa and knowledge to the 'path of liberation,' the actual practice of Mahamudra. According to Dzogchen, 'knowledge' is the view of primordial purity, the Trekchö practice of realizing the heart of enlightenment in the present moment, while 'means' is the meditation of spontaneous presence, the Tögal practice of exhausting defilements and fixation through which the rainbow body is realized within one lifetime. prajna and upaya - Means and knowledge. ["wisdom and skillful means"]