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[[Image:Prajnaparamita.jpg|frame|The goddess Prajñaparamita]]
'''Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Eight Thousand Lines''' (Skt. ''Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā''; Tib. ཤེར་ཕྱིན་བརྒྱད་སྟོང་པ་, [[Wyl.]] ''sher phyin brgyad stong pa''), consisting of 32 chapters, is, according to scholars, the earliest of the [[Prajnaparamita]] [[sutra]]s. Its popular verse summary is known as the ''[[Verse Summary of the Prajnaparamita]]''. 

This sutra takes the form of a series of dialogues between the Buddha [[Shakyamuni]], [[Subhuti]], [[Shariputra]], and others such as [[Indra]], the king of gods, and a Goddess of the Ganges, and as well as setting out the teachings on emptiness as such it describes the path and practices that a [[bodhisattva]] should take to integrate this understanding of phenomena and finally realize it. A special feature of this particular sutra are the inspirational narratives of Sadaprarudita and his quest for the teachings on the ''Perfection'' of Wisdom from the Bodhisattva Dharmodgata, contained in the final three chapters.<ref>84,000</ref>

==Early Translations==
*Tibetan translation: [[Kangyur]], Prajnaparamita Section, [[Toh]] 12

==Modern Translations==
===In English===
*Edward Conze, ''Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Lines and its Verse Summary'', (1958)
===In French===
*Georges Driessens, ''Noble perfection de sagesse en huit mille versets Broché'' (Éditions Vajra Yogini, 2007), translated from Tibetan

==Commentaries==
===Indian===
*[[Haribhadra]], ''Light Ornament: A Great Commentary on the 8,000 Verses''
*[[Ratnakarashanti]], ''Supreme Essence (Sarottama)''
*[[Abhayakaragupta]], ''Moonlight of Points (Marmakaumudi)''

==Famous Quotations==
{{:Quotations: Prajnaparamita in Eight Thousand Verses}}

==References==
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==Further Reading==
*Edward Conze, ''The Prajñāpāramitā Literature'' (1960)

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