Prajnaparamita: Difference between revisions

From Rigpa Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
Line 10: Line 10:
==Subdivisions==
==Subdivisions==
According to the teachings of the ''[[Abhisamayalankara]]'', there are four subdivisions:  
According to the teachings of the ''[[Abhisamayalankara]]'', there are four subdivisions:  
#natural prajnaparamita<br>
#natural prajnaparamita<br>
#scriptural prajnaparamita<br>
#scriptural prajnaparamita<br>
Line 17: Line 16:


==Literature==
==Literature==
*[[Heart Sutra]]
All of the prajñaparamita [[sutra]]s can be classified in the
*[[Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in One Hundred Thousand Lines]]
*[[six mother scriptures]] and  
*[[Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Twenty-five Thousand Lines]]
*[[eleven son scriptures]].
*[[Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Eight Thousand Lines]]
*[[Seventeen mothers and sons]]
*[[Verse Summary of the Prajnaparamita]]


==Notes==
==Notes==
Line 33: Line 29:


[[Category:Key Terms]]
[[Category:Key Terms]]
[[Category:Prajnaparamita]]
[[Category:Mahayana]]
[[Category:Paramitas]]
[[Category:Paramitas]]
[[Category:Prajnaparamita]]
[[Category:Buddhas and Deities]]
[[Category:Buddhas and Deities]]
[[Category:84000 Translations]]
[[Category:84000 Translations]]

Revision as of 20:50, 11 November 2020

Prajñaparamita deity

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:

  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

All of the prajñaparamita sutras can be classified in the

Notes

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

External Links