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'''Prajñaparamita''' | '''Prajñaparamita''' (Skt. ''prajñāpāramitā''; Tib. [[ཤེར་ཕྱིན་]], [[ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་]], ''sherchin''; [[Wyl.]] ''sher phyin'', ''shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'') means 'Perfection of Wisdom', or more literally, ‘transcendent wisdom’. It refers to: | ||
#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 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." | "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]]."<ref>From ''The Words of Jikme Chökyi Wangpo'' by [[Khenpo Tsöndrü]].</ref> | ||
==Subdivisions== | |||
According to the teachings of the ''[[Abhisamayalankara]]'', there are four subdivisions: | |||
#natural prajnaparamita<br> | #natural prajnaparamita<br> | ||
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#resultant prajnaparamita | #resultant prajnaparamita | ||
== | ==Literature== | ||
*[[ | *[[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]] | |||
*[[Seventeen mothers and sons]] | |||
*[[Verse Summary of the Prajnaparamita]] | |||
==Notes== | |||
<small><references/></small> | |||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*[http://www. | * {{LH|topics/prajnaparamita|Prajnaparamita Series on Lotsawa House}} | ||
* {{84000|http://read.84000.co/section/O1JC114941JC14665.html|Perfection of Wisdom Section translations at 84000}} | |||
*[http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/prajna/index.html Prajnaparamita (deity) outline page at Himalayan Art] | |||
[[Category:Key Terms]] | [[Category:Key Terms]] | ||
[[Category:Paramitas]] | |||
[[Category:Prajnaparamita]] | |||
[[Category:Buddhas and Deities]] | [[Category:Buddhas and Deities]] | ||
[[Category:84000 Translations]] |
Revision as of 12:19, 25 February 2020
Prajñaparamita (Skt. prajñāpāramitā; Tib. ཤེར་ཕྱིན་, ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་, sherchin; Wyl. sher phyin, shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa) means 'Perfection of Wisdom', or more literally, ‘transcendent wisdom’. It refers to:
- 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 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:
- natural prajnaparamita
- scriptural prajnaparamita
- path prajnaparamita
- resultant prajnaparamita
Literature
- 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
- Seventeen mothers and sons
- Verse Summary of the Prajnaparamita
Notes
- ↑ From The Words of Jikme Chökyi Wangpo by Khenpo Tsöndrü.