Kṛtyanuṣṭhānajñāna

kṛtyānuṣṭhānajñāna (T. bya ba sgrub pa’i ye shes; C. chengsuozuo zhi 成所作智) is translated as "all-accomplishing wisdom", "wisdom of accomplishing activities", “the wisdom of having accomplished what was to be done”, etc. One of the five types of wisdom that are experienced by the buddhas.

Kṛtyānuṣṭhānajñāna ("wisdom of accomplishing activities") is the awareness that "spontaneously carries out all that has to be done for the welfare of beings, manifesting itself in all directions".

Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang states:

Like a doctor who diagnoses a disease by taking the patient’s pulse and then does all he can to treat and remedy the disease, the Buddhas, with their all-accomplishing wisdom, consider beings and the ways by which they might benefit them, and then appear spontaneously and effortlessly, without change or exertion, to benefit those beings.

The Khenjuk states:

All-accomplishing wisdom, the transformation of the five sense consciousnesses, accomplishes the welfare of all sentient beings throughout the world systems by means of emanations of body, speech and mind, as well as a countless variety of other kinds.

Sources

• Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University 
• Keown, Damien (2003), A Dictionary of Buddhism, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-860560-9 
• Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang (2011), A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher, translated by Padmakara Translation Group, Shambhala 
• Mipham Rinpoche (2002), Gateway to Knowledge, vol. III, translated by Kunsang, Erik Pema, Rangjung Yeshe Publications 

Further reading

• Thinley Norbu (2012), Small Golden Key, Shambhala 
• Thrangu Rinpoche (1998), The Five Buddha Families and the Eight Consciousnesses, translated by Peter Roberts, Boulder, Colorado: Namo Buddha Publications 
• mnyam_pa_nyid_kyi_ye_shes, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
• མཉམ་ཉིད་ཡེ་ཤེས་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary