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'''Prajñaparamita''' (Skt. Prajñāparamitā; Tib. ''sherchin''; [[wyl.]] ''sher phyin'') literally, ‘transcendent wisdom’. 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.
'''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.


===Scholarly Definition===
==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>
 
:--From ''The Words of Jikme Chökyi Wangpo'' by [[Khenpo Tsöndrü]].
 
===Subdivisions===
There are said to be four subdivisions:


==Subdivisions==
According to the teachings of the ''[[Abhisamayalankara]]'', there are four subdivisions:
#natural prajnaparamita<br>
#natural prajnaparamita<br>
#scriptural prajnaparamita<br>
#scriptural prajnaparamita<br>
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#resultant prajnaparamita
#resultant prajnaparamita


==Internal Links==
==Literature==
*[[Abhisamayalankara]]
All of the prajñaparamita [[sutra]]s can be classified in the
*[[Heart Sutra]]
*[[six mother scriptures]] and
*[[eleven son scriptures]].
 
In the Tibetan canon, all these texts can be found at the beginning of the Sutra collection of the [[Kangyur]] ([[Toh]] 8-30).
 
==Notes==
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==External Links==
==External Links==
*[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/prajnaparamita.html Prajnaparamita Series on Lotsawa House]
* {{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]


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

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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

In the Tibetan canon, all these texts can be found at the beginning of the Sutra collection of the Kangyur (Toh 8-30).

Notes

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

External Links