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སྙན།
Without wisdom, there is no knowledge;
by 萨迦班智达 (Sakya Pandita)
from 《萨迦格言》
Original Tibetan
ཤེས་རབ་མེད་ན་རིག་པ་མེད།། རིག་པ་མེད་ན་དོན་ཀྱང་མེད།།
sherab me na rikpa me, rikpa me na dön kyang me
Translations
中文
无慧则无智，无智则无义。
English
Without wisdom, there is no knowledge; Without knowledge, there is no meaning.
Pronunciation by Dialect
Ü-Tsang
Central Tibet (Lhasa, Shigatse)
sherab me na rikpa me, rikpa me na dön kyang me
/sherab me na rikpa me, rikpa me na dön kyang me/
Kham
Eastern Tibet (Chamdo, Garze, Dêqên)
sherab me na rikpa me, rikpa me na dön kyang me
/sherab me na rikpa me, rikpa me na dön kyang me/
Amdo
Amdo region (Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan)
sherab me na rikpa me, rikpa me na dön kyang me
/sherab me na rikpa me, rikpa me na dön kyang me/