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'''Sentient beings''' (Skt. ''sattva''; Tib.སེམས་ཆེན་,  ''sem chen''; Wyl. ''sems can'') — all inhabitants of the [[three realms]] of [[samsara]] who possess a mind and transmigrate within the [[six classes of beings]]. Animate things, such as plants, which do not have a mind, are not 'sentient'.
'''Sentient beings''' (Skt. ''sattva''; Tib.སེམས་ཆེན་,  ''sem chen''; [[Wyl.]] ''sems can'') — all inhabitants of the [[three realms]] of [[samsara]] who possess a mind and transmigrate within the [[six classes of beings]]. Animate things, such as plants, which do not have a mind, are not 'sentient'.


==Alternative Translations==
==Alternative Translations==

Revision as of 05:20, 5 August 2017

Sentient beings (Skt. sattva; Tib.སེམས་ཆེན་, sem chen; Wyl. sems can) — all inhabitants of the three realms of samsara who possess a mind and transmigrate within the six classes of beings. Animate things, such as plants, which do not have a mind, are not 'sentient'.

Alternative Translations

  • limited beings (Alexander Berzin)