Where does “ཤེས་བཞིན་མིན་པ” come from?
ཤེས་བཞིན་མིན་པ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཤེས, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sjəj — to know.
ཤེས་བཞིན་མིན་པ (Tibetan): inattention, non-introspection, unawareness
Definitions
- inattention, non-introspection, unawareness
Ancestry of “ཤེས་བཞིན་མིན་པ”, step by step
ཤེས་བཞིན་མིན་པ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Tibetan ཤེས
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | ཤེས | to know, to understand, to realise, to cognise |
| 2 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | *sjəj | to know |
via Tibetan པ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | པ | a nominalization suffix |
via Tibetan བཞིན
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | བཞིན | image |