KNOWLEDGE - ပညာ

KNOWLEDGE Paññᾱ

ပညာ -          ေ၀ဖန္ပုိင္းျခား၍ သိျမင္တတ္ေသာသေဘာ၊ အၾကားအျမင္ ဗဟုသုတ၊ အမွန္သိျခင္း။

ပညာသည္ -

(၁) သုတမယပညာ - အၾကားအျမင္မွ ရရွိေသာပညာ၊

(၂) စိႏၲာမယပညာ - အႀကံအစည္မွ ရရွိေသာပညာ၊

(၃) ဘာ၀နာမယပညာ - သမထ ၀ိပႆနာတရား အားထုတ္မွ ရရွိေသာပညာ - ဟူ၍ (၃) မ်ဳိးရွိသည္။

Wisdom; reasoning power; general knowledge; seeing things as they truly are

Knowledge is of three kinds:

(1) knowledge gained by learning, sutamaya pannã;

(2) knowledge gained by reasoning and thinking, cintᾱmaya paññᾱ; and

(3) knowledge gained through meditation and repeated contemplation, bhᾱvanᾱmaya paññᾱ.

See also LEARNING.