Jñāna-sattva
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Jñanasattva (Skt. jñānasattva; Tib. ཡེ་ཤེས་སེམས་དཔའ་་, Wyl. ye shes sems dpa’), 'wisdom being', is:
- The “true” or actual wisdom deities you invite to come and bless the deities of the mandala you have visualized.
- It also refers to the deity visualized in the heart centre of the samayasattva.
jñāna-sattva (Sanskrit). ‘Awareness-being’, a term used in later tantric Buddhism to denote the true form of a deity (devatā) as an aspect of enlightenment (bodhi). The awareness being was often summoned to merge with the samaya-sattva, or visualized image of the deity, as a part of the process of worship (pūjā) or self-transformation.
