ཡེ་ཤེས

Tibetan

Etymology

From ཡེ (ye, “primordial”) +‎ ཤེས (shes, “to know, understand, realise, cognise”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*je.ɕes/
• Lhasa: /ji˩˨.ɕi˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*je.ɕes/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: yi^v-xi^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ji˩˨.ɕi˥˨/

Noun

ཡེ་ཤེས • (ye shes)

1. wisdom, awareness, knowledge
2. (Buddhism) jnana

Proper noun

ཡེ་ཤེས • (ye shes)

1. a unisex given name: Yeshe