The Kangyur
Perfection of Wisdom
ཤེར་ཕྱིན།
Prajñāpāramitā
The collection of discourses on the Perfection of Wisdom.
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The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines
Śatasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā
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The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines is the longest of all the Prajñāpāramitā sūtras and fills no fewer than twelve volumes of the Degé Kangyur. Like the other two long sūtras, it is a detailed record of the teaching on the perfection of wisdom that the Buddha Śākyamuni gave on Vulture Peak in Rājagṛha, setting out all aspects of the path to enlightenment that bodhisattvas must know and put into practice, yet without taking them as having even the slightest true existence.
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The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines
Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā
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ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་སྟོང་ཕྲག་ཉི་ཤུ་ལྔ་པ།
The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines is among the most important scriptures underlying both the “vast” and the “profound” approaches to Buddhist thought and practice. Known as the “middle-length” version, being the second longest of the three long Perfection of Wisdom sūtras, it fills three volumes of the Kangyur. Like the two other long sūtras, it records the major teaching on the perfection of wisdom given by the Buddha Śākyamuni on Vulture Peak, detailing all aspects of the path to enlightenment while at the same time emphasizing how bodhisattvas must put them into practice without taking them—or any aspects of enlightenment itself—as having even the slightest true existence.
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Perfection of Wisdom
The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines
Aṣṭādaśasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā
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ཤེར་ཕྱིན་ཁྲི་བརྒྱད་སྟོང་པ།
The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines is one version of the Long Perfection of Wisdom sūtras that developed in South and South-Central Asia in tandem with the Eight Thousand version, probably during the first five hundred years of the Common Era.
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Perfection of Wisdom
The Transcendent Perfection of Wisdom in Ten Thousand Lines
Daśasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā
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While dwelling at Vulture Peak near Rājagṛha, the Buddha sets in motion the sūtras that are the most extensive of all—the sūtras on the Prajñāpāramitā, or “Transcendent Perfection of Wisdom.”
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The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines
Aṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā
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This sūtra takes the form of a series of dialogues between the Buddha Śākyamuni, Subhūti, Śāriputra, 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 sūtra are the inspirational narratives of Sadāprarudita and his quest for the teachings on the Perfection of Wisdom from the Bodhisattva Dharmodgata, contained in the final three chapters.
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The Verses that Summarize the Perfection of Wisdom
Prajñāpāramitāsaṃcayagāthā
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The Perfection of Wisdom Teachings “The Questions of Suvikrāntavikrāmin”
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རབ་ཀྱི་རྩལ་གྱིས་རྣམ་པར་གནོན་པས་ཞུས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཕྱིན་པ་བསྟན་པ།
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The Perfection of Wisdom in Five Hundred Lines
Pañcaśatikāprajñāpāramitā
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The Sūtra on the Perfection of Wisdom "The Diamond Cutter" (The Diamond Sūtra)
Vajracchedikā
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The Principles of the Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred and Fifty Lines
Prajñāpāramitānayaśatapañcaśatikā
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ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་ཚུལ་བརྒྱ་ལྔ་བཅུ་པ།
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The Illustrious Perfection of Wisdom in Fifty Lines
Bhagavatīprajñāpāramitāpañcāśatikā
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The Perfection of Wisdom “Kauśika”
Kauśikaprajñāpāramitā
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The Perfection of Wisdom “Kauśika” is a condensed prajñāpāramitā sūtra in which the Buddha summarizes the various meanings of the perfection of wisdom. In particular, the Buddha equates the characteristics of the perfection of wisdom with the characteristics of all phenomena, the five aggregates, the five elements, and the ten perfections. In this way, the sūtra places particular emphasis on the nonduality of conventional phenomena and emptiness.
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The Twenty-five Entrances to the Perfection of Wisdom
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The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom, the Blessed Mother
Bhagavatīprajñāpāramitāhṛdaya
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བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ།
In this famous scripture, known popularly as The Heart Sūtra, the Buddha Śākyamuni inspires his senior monk Śāriputra to request instructions from the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara on the way to practice the perfection of wisdom. Avalokiteśvara then describes how an aspiring practitioner of the perfection of wisdom must first understand how all phenomena lack an intrinsic nature, which amounts to the realization of emptiness.
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The Perfection of Wisdom in a Few Syllables
Svalpākṣaraprajñāpāramitā
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The Perfection of Wisdom Mother in One Syllable
Ekākṣarīmātāprajñāpāramitā
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The Perfection of Wisdom in Seven Hundred Lines
Saptaśatikāprajñāpāramitā
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The Hundred and Eight Names of the Perfection of Wisdom
Prajñāpāramitānāmāṣṭaśataka
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The Sūryagarbha Perfection of Wisdom
Sūryagarbhaprajñāpāramitā
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The Sūryagarbha Perfection of Wisdom is a condensed prajñāpāramitā sūtra in the form of a dialogue between the Buddha and the bodhisattva Sūryaprabhāsa, who asks the Buddha how bodhisattvas skilled in means should train themselves in the perfection of wisdom. In response, the Buddha explains that a bodhisattva should train in a meditative stability called the sun or the sun skilled in means, elaborating upon the qualities of this meditative stability using the analogy of the sun in terms of seven qualities.
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The Candragarbha Perfection of Wisdom
Candragarbhaprajñāpāramitā
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The Candragarbha Perfection of Wisdom is a condensed prajñāpāramitā sūtra that takes the form of a dialogue between the Buddha and the bodhisattva Candragarbha. In response to Candragarbha’s question about how bodhisattvas should train themselves in the perfection of wisdom, the Buddha declares that the perfection of wisdom lies in the understanding that all phenomena are devoid of entities, using the analogy of the moon to clarify the meaning of this declaration.
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The Samantabhadra Perfection of Wisdom
Samantabhadraprajñāpāramitā
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In a retreat place in Magadha, the Buddha Śākyamuni and the bodhisattva Samantabhadra, surrounded by many bodhisattvas, perform miracles in a meditative absorption. The bodhisattva Samantabhadra asks the Buddha to distinguish between two levels of the perfection of wisdom. In response, the Buddha gives definitions of these two levels. This sūtra is one of the short prajñāpāramitā sūtras, and it belongs especially to the category related to the five bodhisattvas: Sūryagarbha, Candragarbha, Samantabhadra, Vajrapāṇi, and Vajraketu. Despite its brevity, it echoes other sūtras that feature the figure of Samantabhadra and the distinguishing of two types of wisdom.
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The Perfection of Wisdom for Vajrapāṇi
Vajrapāṇiprajñāpāramitā
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The Perfection of Wisdom for Vajraketu
Vajraketuprajñāpāramitā
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