From the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, a Sanskrit Manuscript of the 8000 line PP sutra, Nalanda, Bihar, India. composed somewhere on the Indian subcontinent between approximately 100 BC and AD 600." Some Prajnāpāramitā sūtras are thought to be among the earliest Mahāyāna sūtras.
Its practice and understanding are taken to be indispensable elements of the Bodhisattva path.Īccording to Edward Conze, the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras are "a collection of about forty texts. unborn) and the madhyamaka thought of Nāgārjuna. Prajñāpāramitā is a central concept in Mahāyāna Buddhism and is generally associated with ideas such as emptiness ( śūnyatā), 'lack of svabhāva' ( essence), the illusory ( māyā) nature of things, how all phenomena are characterized by "non-arising" ( anutpāda, i.e.
The word Prajñāpāramitā combines the Sanskrit words prajñā "wisdom" (or "knowledge") with pāramitā "perfection" or " transcendent". It also refers to the female deity Prajñāpāramitā Devi, a personification of wisdom also known as the "Great Mother" (Tibetan: Yum Chenmo). Prajñāpāramitā refers to a perfected way of seeing the nature of reality, as well as to a particular body of Mahāyāna scriptures ( sūtras) which discusses this wisdom. Prajñāpāramitā ( Sanskrit: प्रज्ञापारमिता) means "the Perfection of Wisdom" or "Transcendental Knowledge" in Mahāyāna and Theravāda Buddhism.
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