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	Perfection of Wisdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Perfection of Wisdom is a translation of the Sanskrit term prajñā pāramitā (Hanzi.
		The Perfection of Wisdom Sutras or Prajñāparamitā Sutras are a genre of Mahayana Buddhist scriptures dealing with the subject of the Perfection of Wisdom.
		The Perfection of Wisdom goes beyond earlier Buddhist teaching that focused on the rise and fall of phenomena to state that there is no such rise and fall - because all phenomena are essentially void.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Perfection_of_Wisdom (1008 words)

	THE PERFECTION OF WISDOM IN 8,000 LINES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Perfect wisdom is an infinite perfection because one cannot get at the beginning, middle, or end of any objective fact [since as a dharma, such have no own-being].
		Perfection of wisdom makes any spot of earth wherever it is into a true shrine for beings, - worthy of being worshipped and adored, - into a shelter for beings coming to it, a refuge, a place to rest and final relief.
		For by worshipping the perfection of wisdom one worships cognition of all-knowing.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /TPW8000L.htm (12995 words)

	Perfection of Wisdom
		Response: The wisdom achieved by the Buddha is genuinely "paaramitaa." It is because the cause is also "paaramitaa" that that which is practiced by the Bodhisattva is also referred to as "paaramitaa." This is because in the sphere of cause one refers to the ultimate effect.
		The wisdom of the Buddhas has put an end to all afflictions and habitual propensities and has also achieved realization of the ultimate reality aspect of all dharmas in just the same manner as the later lamp was doubly bright in the degree of its illumination.
		As for the wisdom "involving study," it refers to such categories as the wisdom of the dharma of suffering, the wisdom of patience, and so forth until we come to the stage verging on Arhatship, and the wisdom of the vajra samadhi within the ninth unobstructed path.
	www.purifymind.com /Wisdom.htm (2230 words)

	Heart Of Wisdom -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wisdom is often meant as the ability and desire to make choices that can gain approval in a long-term examination by many people.
		A standard philosophical definition says that wisdom consists of "making the best use of available knowledge." Many modern authorities on government, religion and philosophical ethics say that wisdom connotes an "enlightened perspective." This perspective is often defined in a utilitarian way, as effective support for the long-term common good.
		Norman Wisdom is a well known and loved cult film icon in Albania, being the only Western actor whose films were allowed in the country during the Communist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha (the archetypal Wisdom plot -- the common working man getting the better of his bosses -- was considered ideologically sound by Hoxha).
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/71/heart-of-wisdom.html (1602 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Infinity
		Determination is limitation in those cases only where it excludes any further possible perfection, as for example, the determination of a surface by a geometrical figure; but it is no limitation, if it adds further reality, and does not exclude, but rather requires a new perfection, as for example, the determination of substance by rationality.
		We say a pure unalloyed perfection; for God, just because He is infinite does not possess all perfections in the same way.
		God's perfection and that of the creature are the same analogically only, not univocally.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08004a.htm (3277 words)

	Wisdom Quotes \| Wisdom Quotations \| Wisdom Sayings \| Wisdom Quotes
		The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.
		The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
		The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
	www.wisdomquotes.com /cat_wisdom.html (1175 words)

	Buddhism Today - Dda.o Pha^.t Nga`y Nay, default page-english
		Yet in the perfection of wisdom we have a dynamic idea--the idea of a penetrative wisdom or insight that transcends the limit, that is transcendental.
		The passage from wisdom to the perfection of wisdom is thus the passage from a vision of reality characterized by perception and acceptance of individual components of reality to a vision characterized by perception of the emptiness, or voidness (shunyata), even of these individual components.
		Again, the perfection of wisdom has been compared to baking an earthenware jar which, in the process, becomes resistant to shattering: so, too, when a Bodhisattva is trained and steeped in the perfection of wisdom, he becomes durable, stable, and difficult to shatter.
	www.buddhismtoday.com /english/philosophy/maha/006-heart.htm (2134 words)

	The Perfection of Wisdom (hardcover book) selected & trans. by R.C. Jamieson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At the heart of Buddhism lies the doctrine of the perfection of wisdom.
		The sutras known as The Perfecion of Wisdom in 8,000 Lines are the oldest version of this important Buddhist text, composed some two thousand years ago, and are the basis for the present translation.
		Paradoxically, The Perfection of Wisdom exists as a guide to those seeking enlightenment, even though no guidance can be given.
	www.sevenrays.com /catalog/describe?0670889242 (306 words)

	Mother of all Buddhas
		Because she pointed to a reality which eludes classifications, this wisdom, prajna, was called paramita, which means "gone beyond' or to the 'other side," as well as "perfection." To those who were dryly and doggedly analyzing the dharmas, she offered not theories, but paradoxes.
		A rich and startling new dimension is added to our understanding of the Perfection of Wisdom, when we learn how some terms used to describe her played a role in the development of mathematics in India, and particularly in the emergence of the concept of zero.
		The fundamental difference is ontological: Perfection of Wisdom is empty, devoid of independent being, whereas Shiva as wisdom is the ultimate essence with which, by aid of Shakti, the adept would merge.
	www.dhushara.com /book/budd/mht/mother.htm (2109 words)

	Perfection of Wisdom
		Their wisdom is dismissed herein on account of the fact that it involves a contemplation of emptiness rooted in affectionate attachment.
		In this case, is on account of the power of wisdom that one achieves a state free of thought.
		In the case of those wanting in wisdom, when they hear all of these different explanations, they may be of the opinion that they are perversely contradictory and erroneous.
	www.purifymind.com /Wisdom1.htm (2781 words)

	On the Perfection of Wisdom
		Among all the types of wisdom the foremost type of wisdom is the prajna paramita.
		The faculty (muula) of non-outflow wisdom is foremost.
		On this account the bodhisattva's wisdom is appropriately referred to as "non-outflow." When on account of not yet having severed the fetters he has not yet brought the task to completion, that [wisdom] is appropriately referred to as "outflow" [in nature].
	www.kalavinka.org /jewels/nagajuna/mppu/webdana/danapraj.htm (1644 words)

	Philosophy as Wisdom // COM 707 // Week One Unit
		Sacred authors contemplate in God that wisdom from which their own flows: it is a divine reality which exists from eternity and for eternity (Pr 8:22-26); It proceeds from the mouth of the most High.
		Apostolic writers call Jesus the wisdom of God (1 Cor 1:24); the first-born before any creature and the artisan of creation (Col 1: 15); the resplendence of God's glory, the image of His substance (Heb 1:3); the wisdom of the Father, He is His Word (Jn 1:1).
		Theological wisdom is under the rule of supernatural faith and its object is God as He is in Himself.
	www.regent.edu /acad/schcom/phd/com707/wisdom.html (1353 words)

	"Mother of All Buddhas": The Perfection of Wisdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The “Mother of All Buddhas”; is the self-named description of a primary body of Buddhist literature known as the Perfection of Wisdom (Prajnaparamita).
		As perfected insight, she is the source of all Buddhahood.
		The female is perfected wisdom while the male is compassion and skilful means—their meditational unity thus embodies the state of enlightenment.
	kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu /exhib/circleofbliss/Mother01.html (161 words)

	The Benefits of Studying Perfection of Wisdom
		In addition, ten eons of explaining the teachings on the perfection of wisdom to other sentient beings collects far greater merit than ten eons of listening to the teachings on the perfection of wisdom.
		Just memorizing four lines – one stanza – of the teachings on the perfection of wisdom collects far greater merit than if you were to fill that many worlds with precious jewels, gold, diamonds, and silver and make offerings of these to the Buddha.
		The beginning of the Madhyamakavatara text says that [the perfection of wisdom] is called “mother” because all the numberless past, present, and future buddhas have been born from this perfection of wisdom.
	www.lamayeshe.com /lamazopa/benefits.shtml (2423 words)

	Translations - The Sutra of the Heart of the Lady Perfection of Wisdom
		At the same time, noble Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva mahasattva, while practicing the profound perfection of wisdom, looked in this way: he saw the five heaps to be empty of nature.
		All the buddhas of the three times, by means of the perfection of wisdom, fully awaken to unsurpassable, true, complete awakening.
		Therefore, know the mantra of the perfection of wisdom, a mantra of great understanding, an unsurpassed mantra, a mantra equal to the unequalled, a mantra that completely calms all suffering, to be true because it is not false.
	www.unfetteredmind.org /trans/heart.php (413 words)

	Heart of Wisdom Sutra
		At that time also the Superior Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva, the great being, was looking perfectly at the practice of the profound perfection of wisdom, perfectly looking at the emptiness of inherent existence of the five aggregates also.
		Also, all the Buddhas who perfectly reside in the three times, relying upon the perfection of wisdom, become manifest and complete Buddhas in the state of unsurpassed, perfect and complete enlightenment.
		The mantra of the perfection of wisdom is proclaimed:
	www.angelfire.com /yt/fairtibet/heart.html (590 words)

	The Cambridge Platonists
		Whichcote regarded human nature as rational and perfectible, and he believed that it is through reason as much as revelation that God communicates with man. ‘God is the most knowable of any thing in the world’ (Patrides, 1969, p.58).
		This anti-voluntarist understanding of God's attributes is also the foundation of epistemology and ethics, since God's wisdom and goodness are the guarantors of truth and of moral principles.
		By contrast, a philosophy founded on a voluntaristic conception of the deity would have no ground of certainty or of morality because it would depend on the arbitrary will of God who could, by arbitrary fiat, decree non-sense to be true and wrong to be right.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/cambridge-platonists (4422 words)

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		\par 2) There is no such thing as a bodhisattva, or as all-knowledge, or as a 'being', or as the perfection of wisdom, or as an attainment.
		To accept both of these contradictory facts is to be perfect.' \par The central idea of The Perfection of Wisdom is complete release from the world of existence.
	web.syr.edu /~drharney/buddism.rtf (593 words)

	The Perfection of Wisdom Heart Sutra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Also at the time the Holy Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva Mahasattva, looked upon the profound course of the Perfection of Wisdom and beheld that the five aggregates were empty by their own nature.
		Therefore, the Mantra of the Perfection of Wisdom, the mantra of great knowledge, the unsurpassable mantra, the unequalled mantra, the mantra which pacifies all suffering, should be known as the Truth — for there is no deception.
		The mantra of the Perfection of Wisdom is pronounced thus:
	www.helsinki.fi /~papinnie/heart.html (569 words)

	Timeless Wisdom: Natural Great Perfection
		Natural Great Perfection That Perfection, wherein the world and knowledge thereof rise and set, and which shines without rising and setting, is alone the Reality.
		No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people...
		Lex Hixon In the depth of our heart, we already know that we are perfect as we are, in the depth of our inner being, we already know that life is perfect as it is. Giten That is perfect.
	www.awakening.net /WPerfection.html (353 words)

	Heart Sutra with commentary.
		Therefore "Saariputra, because there is no gnosis, no possession, or witness or state witnessed, the Bodhisattva dwells in reliance on the Perfection of Wisdom, his or her Mind free of obstruction.
		Therefore it should be known that the Heart Sutra of Wisdom is the great Mantra,--it is the Great Light-giving Mantra, the most excellent Mantra, the peerless Mantra, capable of allaying all suffering; it is truth because it not in error.
		In the perfection of wisdom we are passing through all things good and bad.
	www.darkzen.com /zenmar/heart.html (851 words)

	The Heart Sutra
		Therefore, Shariputra, because there is no attainment, all Bodhisattvas rely on and abide in the perfection of wisdom; their minds have no obstructions and no fear.
		Therefore, the mantra of the perfection of wisdom, the mantra of great knowledge, the unsurpassed mantra, the equal-to-the-unequalled mantra, the mantra that thoroughly pacifies all suffering, since it is not false, should be known as the truth.
		Just as before, when by contemplating the profound meaning of the perfection of wisdom and reciting its words, Indra overcame all the harm of maras, non-humans and so forth, in the same way, by my contemplating the profound meaning of the perfection of wisdom and reciting its words:
	www.omplace.com /omsites/Buddhism/heartsutra.html (821 words)

	LamRim.com - Heart Sutra
		At that very time as well, holy Avalokitsevara, the bodhisattva, the great being, beheld the practice itself of the profound perfection of wisdom, and he even saw the five aggregates as empty of inherent nature.
		"Therefore, one should know that the mantra of the perfection of wisdom - the mantra of great knowledge, the precious mantra, the unexcelled mantra, the mantra equal to the unequalled, the mantra that quells all suffering - is true because it is not deceptive.
		One should practice the profound perfection of wisdom in the manner that you have revealed - the Tathagatas rejoice!" This is what the Blessed One said.
	www.lamrim.com /hhdl/heartsutra.html (593 words)

	The Perfection of Wisdom (I) (prajna-paramita in Mahayana) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A level of wisdom that is beyond the understanding of persons who have not made significant strides toward enlightenment: prajnaparamita -- perfect or transcendent wisdom.
		All things being transitory and without enduring substance, are said to be 'empty' (of self), and are rightly called empty: shunya.
		The entire world is said to be shunya or empty: possessing no stable, satisfying target for tanha.
	www.wou.edu /las/humanities/cannon/ppb4/tsld016.htm (79 words)

	REL R450 3891 Perfection of Wisdom Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		R450 Perfection of Wisdom Literature (Nattier) * Intensive Writing Credit (3 Cr.) T 4:00-6:30 PM BH 331 Requires Authorization from Religious Studies Department.
		This course will focus on some of the most influential scriptures of the "Perfection of Wisdom" group, including the Small Sutra, the Large Sutra, the Diamond Sutra, and the Heart Sutra.
		All required readings will be in English, though students majoring in Asian languages will have the option of reading portions of these texts in the originals.
	www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blfal00/rel/rel_r450_3891.html (94 words)

	PHIL 422 Handout 16: Perfection of Wisdom, Madyhamaka and Yogacara
		RELS Handout 13.1: Perfection of Wisdom, Madyhamaka and Yogacara
		Make seemingly contradictory claims (e.g., the perfection of patience is not a perfection, etc.) and seems to contradict earlier and essential Buddhist teaching.
		Interpretation: Contradictions can be resolved by recognizing that the texts are about transcending ordinary knowledge in order to achieve a higher wisdom.
	www.calpoly.edu /~jlynch/307131.htm (1576 words)

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