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'''Prajñaparamita''' (Skt. ''Prajñāpāramitā''; Tib. ''sherchin''; [[wyl.]] ''sher phyin'') literally, ‘transcendent wisdom’.  
'''Prajñaparamita''' (Skt. ''Prajñāpāramitā''; Tib. ''sherchin''; [[wyl.]] ''sher phyin'') means 'Perfection of Wisdom', or more literally, ‘transcendent wisdom’. It refers to:
#the sixth of the [[paramitas]]: perfect non-conceptual wisdom.  
#the sixth of the [[paramitas]]: perfect non-conceptual wisdom.  
#the class of Buddhist literature that was mainly discovered by [[Nagarjuna]] in the second century. Its central topic is [[emptiness]].  
#the class of Buddhist literature that was mainly discovered by [[Nagarjuna]] in the second century. Its central topic is [[emptiness]].  
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==Literature==
==Literature==
*[[Heart Sutra]]
*[[Heart Sutra]]
*[[Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in One Hundred Thousand Lines]]
*[[Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Twenty-five Thousand Lines]]
*[[Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Eight Thousand Lines]]
*[[Six mother scriptures]]
*[[Six mother scriptures]]
*[[Verse Summary of the Prajnaparamita]]
*[[Verse Summary of the Prajnaparamita]]

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Prajñaparamita

Prajñaparamita (Skt. Prajñāpāramitā; Tib. sherchin; wyl. sher phyin) means 'Perfection of Wisdom', or more literally, ‘transcendent wisdom’. It refers to:

  1. the sixth of the paramitas: perfect non-conceptual wisdom.
  2. the class of Buddhist literature that was mainly discovered by Nagarjuna in the second century. Its central topic is emptiness.
  3. the female deity who is the embodiment of transcendent wisdom.

Definition

"Prajnaparamita is the wisdom of directly realizing the non-conceptual simplicity of all phenomena, which has arrived at, or will lead one to, non-abiding nirvana."[1]

Subdivisions

According to the teachings of the Abhisamayalankara, there are four subdivisions:

  1. natural prajnaparamita
  2. scriptural prajnaparamita
  3. path prajnaparamita
  4. resultant prajnaparamita

Literature

Notes

  1. From The Words of Jikme Chökyi Wangpo by Khenpo Tsöndrü.

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