REJOICE! Dedicating the Merit from The Perfection of Wisdom for All
On June 18, we had a heartwarming online celebration of the completion of our crowdfunding campaign to sponsor the translation into English of one of the lengthiest texts in the Tibetan Kangyur. This event to dedicate the merit from this campaign was held on the birthday of 84000’s founding chair, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. Rinpoche’s presence was a highlight, and in this short video Rinpoche shares his thoughts around the oddities of birthday celebrations and expresses his gratitude and appreciation to everyone involved in making the profound teachings of Prajñāpāramitā accessible to the world.
“But wisdom is not intelligence. Wisdom is much more… beyond any of the things that we value. One can be smart, one can be intelligent, one can be educated, but it does not necessarily mean that we have wisdom, and where else is the wisdom of the Buddha taught in its most complete form, but in the Prajñāpāramitā.”
Related Reading
The collection of discourses on the Perfection of Wisdom that are now published:
The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines (Toh 9)
The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines (Toh 10)
The Transcendent Perfection of Wisdom in Ten Thousand Lines (Toh 11)
The Perfection of Wisdom “Kauśika” (Toh 19)
The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom, the Blessed Mother (Toh 21/531)
To make an offering to 84000’s work translating the Tibetan Buddhist canon for the modern-day thinker, and to making it freely accessible for all, please visit: https://84000.co/donate
Posted: 20 May 2023