vijYAna
vijñāna , nt. (in mgs. 3—5 = Pali viññāna; orig. in Skt. , practical knowledge , opp. to jñāna , theoretical knowledge , see Edgerton, Festschrift Winternitz , 217 ff. ), ( 1 ) practical knowledge, applied knowledge , as in Skt. , still clearly in LV 422.13 durvijñānaṃ (or v.l. °jñeyaṃ) tac cakraṃ jñāna-vijñāna-samatānubaddhatvāt, this wheel (of the Doctrine) is hard to know (practically), because it is [Page486-a] inseparably connected with identify of theoretical and practical knowledge ( i.e. can only be known by one whose theoretical knowledge is at the same time applied in practice); in Laṅk 156.11 ff. a dissertation on the difference between jñāna and vi°, rendered by Suzuki, Studies 272 , transcendental ( i.e. absolute) and (merely) relative knowledge ; I should prefer abstract and applied knowledge ; but it is true that to the author of Laṅk applied knowledge (vij°) has only practical , and hence in the last analysis no real , application; the passage cited makes this very clear. Essentially similar is the contrast in jñāna-pratisaraṇena bhavitavyaṃ, na vijñāna-pratisaraṇena Mvy 1548 ; more at length Bbh 257.16 ff. bodhisattvaḥ adhigama-jñāne sāradarśī bhavati, na śruta-cintā-dharmārthavijñāna-mātrake; sa yad bhāvanāmayena jñānena jñātavyaṃ na tac chakyaṃ śrutacintā-vijñāna-mātrakeṇa vijñātum iti viditvā paramagambhīrān api tathāgatabhāṣitāṃ dharmān śrutvā na pratikṣipati; ( 2 ) two kinds of vi°, khyāti-vi° and vastuprativikalpa-vi° , qq.v. , Laṅk 37.14 f. ; vi° is aṣṭa-lakṣaṇa, ib. , the list of 8 being given 235.7 ff. , Suzuki, Studies , 189 (‘Ālaya, Manas, Manovijñāna, and the five sense-vijñāna’, on which see dhātu 3; the sixth is mano-vij°); ( 3 ) the sixth of the six ‘elements’, see dhātu 1b; ( 4 ) the fifth of the five (upādāna-)skandha , qq.v. ; ( 5 ) the third link in the pratītyasamutpāda , q.v. In the last four categories often rendered consciousness , etc. ; no single word or brief phrase can, of course, really suffice. In Bbh 49.17—18 (see s.v. naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñā° ) short for vijñānānantyāyatana , in a cpd.