
	Where results make sense

Topic: Prajnaparamita Sutra

Related Topics

Buddhist texts

Pinyin

In the News (Sat 28 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Perfection of Wisdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 earliest sutra in this class is the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra or "Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Lines", which was probably put in writing about 100 BCE and is one of the earliest Mahayana sutras.
		Tantric versions of the Prajnaparamita; literature were produced from 500 on.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Perfection_of_Wisdom (1023 words)

	Hear Sutra - Prologue by Grand Master T'an Hsu
		Prajnaparamita is, therefore, the Essential Wisdom and the center of all kinds of prajna.
		Consequently, the characteristic of the voidness of all dharmas" is the substance of this sutra.
		The third profundity is focused on the clarification of the purpose of the sutra.
	www.buddhanet.net /e-learning/hartpro.htm (2876 words)

	Showcases - Landmarks in Printing :: Diamond Sutra
		Sutras preached by the Buddha were committed to memory by his disciples and passed down from generation to generation.
		The recitation of sutras is an important part of Buddhist religious observance.
		The quality of the illustration at the opening of this ‘Diamond Sutra’ shows the carver of the printing blocks to have been a man of considerable experience and skill.
	www.bl.uk /collections/treasures/diamond.html (1192 words)

	catalog etry for the Vajracchedika Prajnaparamita book
		Its small size, in addition to its simplicity,also suggests that this sutra was a private possession, belonging morelikely to a family than to a temple or monastery.
		The Vajracchedika Prajnaparamita is onevolume of the prajnaparamita sutras, which are the primary scripturesfor MahayanaBuddhism.
		Her collection of sutras is a philosophical work explaininghow to behave towards others as a means of achieving these aspirations.The prajnaparamita sutras include discussions of the ten paramitas(perfections).
	www.ackland.org /art/exhibitions/buddhistart/students/calshook (1150 words)

	On The Heart Sutra
		The Tibetan text we use is taken directly from the fresco in the Ge-gye Che-ma-ling (one of the temples of Samye Vihara) of circa 755-800 CE Under the patronage of the Sage Emperor Trisong Detsan, the Tibetan translator Bhikshu Rinchen De and the Indian Mahasamdhi-master Vimalamitra translated this text into Tibetan.
		It should be noted that in the given context of the Sutra the traditional Bhiksu-samgha is contrasted with the traditional Bodhisattva-samgha.
		Conze, The Composition of the Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita, Bulletin of the London School of Oriental and African Studies, 14, 1952, pp.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /on_the_heart_sutra.htm (2089 words)

	The Heart Sutra - An Introduction
		Therefore, know that Prajnaparamita is the great mantra of power, the great mantra of wisdom, the supreme mantra, the unequalled mantra, which is able to remove all sufferings.
		The Heart Sutra is one among a considerable number of ancient texts known collectively as the Prajnaparamita Sutra meaning the sutra of the insights that will 'take one across to the other shore': that is from the travail of Samsara, our troubled world, to the bliss of Nirvana.
		The insight of this Sutra, some two thousand years old and based in a philosophy sprung from the introspective awareness of meditative insight, is remarkable in part because the objective analysis of the cosmos in modern physics has taken us strikingly into similar territory.
	westernchanfellowship.org /108.html (3169 words)

	Buddhist Scriptures: Guide to Mahayana Sutras
		One of the three sutras that form the doctrinal basis of the Pureland School - the two others are Meditation Sutra and Longer Amitabha Sutra.
		One of the smallest sutras, and with the Diamond Sutra, one of the most popular of the 40 sutras, in the vast Prajnaparamita literature.
		This sutra is the 26th chapter of Avatamsaka Sutra, and is also an independent sutra.
	www.buddhanet.net /e-learning/history/s_mahasutras.htm (345 words)

	The Diamond Sutra - Vajracchedika Prajnaparamita Sutra
		The Diamond Sutra is one of the monumental scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism.
		The Diamond Sutra is intended as an antidote to suffering, which is achieved through wisdom.
		The Buddha having finnished propounding this sutra, the Venerable Subhuti, the bhiksus, bhiksunis, upasakas, and upasikas, and everyone in the worlds of gods, humans, and asuras having heard the Buddha's exposition were all greatly elated.
	reluctant-messenger.com /diamond_sutra.htm (5572 words)

	Heart Sutra
		I have chosen to use the Heart Sutra as a means of exploring many of the topics proposed in the original outline.
		It is one of the Prajnaparamita sutras which distinguish the Mahayna Buddhism from Hinayana Buddhism.
		As the sutra says, it is inseparable from the appearance of perceived objects such as forms." v This view departs from the Hinayana views which see the egolessness of self, but which nonetheless believe that objects exist from their own side.
	www.purifymind.com /HeartSutraPre.htm (1755 words)

	Prajnaparamita
		The clue is, that the Prajnaparamita Sutra defines the "Womb" as the realm from which Buddhas emerge.
		Therefore, in the Sutra the term "Mother of the Buddhas" is misleading.
		The Sutra purposely (?) tries to suppress this insight in favor of "escapist" tendencies, which aim at "liberating oneself from the cycle of birth and death" or the "world of samsara".
	members.tripod.com /thegreatlearning/PRAJNAPARAMITA-SUTRA.htm (2079 words)

	untitled1.html
		Prajnaparamita, the goddess depicted in the center of this ca.
		Prajnaparamita is identified in this painting by the small delicate linear gold painted rendering of a book resting on the lotus in her left hand.
		One of the most popular versions is the Astasahashrikaprajnaparamita Sutra, or the "8,000 Line Prajnaparamita Sutra," held in high esteem by all Mahayana traditions.4 Totaling 18, the versions range only in length, not in subject matter, which remains consistently devoted to the description and explanation of the concept of perfect wisdom.
	kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu /exhib/sama/Essays/NM96.015Praj.html (1112 words)

	Bodhisattva Bookstore: Buddhism root texts - Pali Canon, Prajnaparmita and other Buddhist sutras
		In addition, there are numerous non-Pali Sutras that are central to particular Buddhist sects (such as the Prajnaparamita (Heart) Sutras, the Lotus, and the Flower Ornament), as well as countless later teachings and commentaries.
		Mother of the Buddhas : Meditations on the Prajnaparamita Sutra by Lex Hixon.
		The chapter of the Avatamsaka Sutra translated here is considered the most profound and comprehensive Buddhist scripture, offering the reader a rare glimpse of the sublime realm of Buddhahood in language that is rich in meaning and in captivating imagery.
	www.khandro.com /bookstore/buddhistsutras.html (902 words)

	Emptiness
		The perfection of Prajnaparamita is infinite because it recognizes that all processes are inherently infinite and, therefore, ungraspable and unthinkable.
		It is considered a distillation of the essence of the Prajnaparamita Sutras, and it belongs to that same tradition.
		The Heart Sutra is similar to the Lord's Prayer in Christianity in that it is a brief 'statement of faith' recited constantly by Mahayana Buddhists everywhere, often before or after meditation.
	www.sunyaprajna.com /Buddhism/Emptiness.html (11333 words)

	The Heart Sutra
		The Heart Sutra, in its Japanese form (the Hannya Shingyo), is often chanted by Zen groups before and/or after a meditation sitting.
		The phrase "etc until" is used in the Heart Sutra because the list is assumed to be familiar to the reader (this point is easily missed by Western Buddhists - later writings such as the Prajnaparamita and Zen are intended to build on the foundations of earlier texts, not replace them).
		Up to this point, the Sutra has been through a number of lists and concepts taken from the heart of traditional Buddhist teaching, and either denied their existence, or equated them to emptiness.
	www.andrew-may.com /zendynamics/heart.htm (1531 words)

	The Heart Sutra - A Commentary
		In fact the Heart Sutra is a summary of an enormous body of literature known as the Prajnaparamita Sutras.
		But the Prajnaparamita Sutras were written several hundred years after the death of the Buddha and are re-inventions.
		To understand the Heart Sutra we have to understand that the answer we are given is coming from a person with a very particular experience, that of "oneness with the deepest wisdom of the heart which is beyond all thought".
	westernchanfellowship.org /109.html (6429 words)

	russbo.com Discussion Forum Archive: Prajnaparamita Hrdaya Sutra
		When the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara was coursing (VERY IMPORTANT WORD!) in the deep Prajnaparamita, he saw that the five skandhas were empty; thus he overcame all ills and suffering.
		The Buddhas in the past, present, and future, also by relying on the Prajnaparamita (in whatever it's form, whatever you decide to call it) have attained Supreme Enlightenment.
		Therefore, the Prajnaparamita is the great magic spell, is the great spell of illumination, is the supreme spell, is the unequalled spell, which can truly protect one from all suffering without fail." Therefore he uttered the spell of Prajnaparamita, saying:
	www.russbo.com /discus/messages/62/64.html?974753142 (325 words)

	[No title]
		In the Heart Sutra, the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara says that form, feeling, perception, volition, and consciousness are, in their own being, void--that is, that the nature of the aggregates is empty of independent existence.
		Unreal, too, according to the Heart Sutra, are ignorance, old age, and death; the destruction of ignorance, old age, and death; the Four Noble Truths; attainment and non-attainment.
		The Heart Sutra says that, by relying on this perfection of wisdom whose object is emptiness, all the Tathagatas of the past have achieved the ultimate, supreme, and perfect enlightenment.
	www.ecst.csuchico.edu /~dsantina/tree/ch16.txt (2111 words)

	The Heart Sutra - Prajnaparamita
		The mantra is Gate gate paaragate paarasamgate bodhi svaahaa This mantra represents a class of Mahayana scriptures known as the Prajñaparamita (perfection of Wisdom) Sutras.
		All the buddhas of the three times, by means of prajnaparamita, fully awaken to unsurpassable, true, complete enlightenment.
		Therefore, the great mantra of prajnaparamita, the mantra of great insight, the unsurpassed mantra, the unequaled mantra, the mantra that calms all suffering, should be known as truth, since there is no deception.
	reluctant-messenger.com /heart_sutra.htm (535 words)

	Dharma Fellowship: Library - On The Origins Of Transcendental Wisdom: The Prajna-Paramita Literature
		Herein, for the purpose of exegetic study, is presented the root treatise on Holy Transcendental Wisdom (arya prajna-paramita), consisting of XLI Stanzas extracted from the Ratna-gunasamucaya-gatha (Rgs) and representing the earliest known text on this subject.
		Thus Prajnaparamita should be translated not "Perfection of Wisdom" but rather "Transcendental Wisdom", with the explicit understanding that this Wisdom is the nondual Gnosis of the Absolute.
		Second, the historical evolution of the basic texts: We also use the term Prajnaparamita to mean the actual collection of treatises or Sutras which contain the teaching of the practice of Prajnaparamita.
	www.dharmafellowship.org /library/essays/prajnaparamita.htm (2332 words)

	Han-shan's Heart Sutra Commentary
		A sutra is the spoken teaching of the holy one.
		Hence [the Sutra] states, "Because the buddhas of the three periods of time rely upon the praj~naa-paaramitaa they gain anuttara-samyak-sa.mbodhi." This is a Sanskrit term.
		The Chinese translation of the Heart Sutra renders the word "heart" with "syin" which means both "mind" and "heart." It is for this reason that Han-shan embarks on this reference to the concept of "mind." (text)
	www.kalavinka.org /jewels/hanshan/hsheart1.htm (5113 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Prajnaparamita Diamond Sutra
		This section of sutra shows that all dharmas are without form and transcend conceptual knowledge.
		Moreover, the Diamond Sutra helps us sow many wholesome seeds into our consciousness, so when a similar thought is repeated, good seeds are sown into our store consciousness (alaya vijnana).
		likewise, the Diamond Sutra gives these examples: the past is not attainable, the future is not attainable and the present is not attainable.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=827 (3517 words)

	Arya Tara as an emanation of Prajnaparamita
		The Prajnaparamita Sutras are the essence of perfect wisdom and the Goddess Prajnaparamita, as the physical embodiment of perfect wisdom, is the source of highest enlightenment for all the Buddhas.
		Tara is perhaps the greatest and certainly the most accessible of the emanations of Prajnaparamita and is likewise known as the Mother of all the Buddhas.
		Mother of the Buddhas: Meditation on the Prajnaparamita Sutra.
	jeffsutherland.com /tara/mother.html (436 words)

	Amazon.com: Mother of the Buddhas: Books: Lex Hixon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Prajnaparamita sutra is a central text in Mahayana Buddhism and considered by some to be the foundation text.
		An old translation of the complete sutra by the late scholar Edward Conze is once again in print, but it is very poorly written, and except for its completeness it pales miserably in comparison to Mother of the Buddhas.
		This exposition of the Prajnaparamita Sutra, by Lex Hixon, is Enlightening.
	www.amazon.com /gp/product/0835606899 (1445 words)

	Robin Beck: Prajnaparamita Hridaya Sutra
		The Heart Sutra is the shortest and the most popular sutra in Buddhism.
		The six hundred volumes of the Maha Prajna Sutra are summarized by the Diamond Sutra in around 5000 words, and the Diamond Sutra is summarized by the Heart Sutra in around 250 words.
		The Heart Sutra is regarded as the summation of the wisdom of Buddha.
	www.fraughtwithperil.com /blogs/rbeck/archives/000735.html (167 words)

	"The Heart Sutra: Prajnaparamita-Hridaya-Sutra"
		Therefore, O Sariputra, by reason of his nonattainment (of nirvana), the bodhisattva, having resorted to prajnaparamita (transcendental wisdom), dwells serenely with perfect mental freedom.
		tasmaj jnatavyam: prajnaparamita maha-mantro mahavidya-mantro 'nuttara-mantro samasama-mantrah, sarva-duhkha-prasamanah, satyam amithyatvat.
		Therefore prajnaparamita should be recognized as the great mantra, the mantra of great wisdom, the most sublime mantra, the incomparable mantra and the alleviator of all suffering; it is truth by reason of its being nonfalsehood.
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/world/asia/as-heart.htm (783 words)

	The Heart Sutra - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the last phase, tantric influences came in and the texts became dharanis, that is short mantric verses for chanting, the shortest being the single syllable Ah!
		In the earliest sutra, the Astasahasrika, the principle discussants are the Buddha, Sariputra and Subhuti, the last two being names of great arhats among the earliest disciples of the Buddha.
		Essentially he is sitting in a mode of active, close observation of the mind, a meditative enquiry (Vipassana) observational rather than intellectual.
	www.purifymind.com /HeartSutraIntro.htm (2958 words)

	Heart Sutra: Ancient Buddhist Wisdom in the Light of Quantum Reality by Mu Soeng Sunim
		The Heart Sutra, or Maha-Prajnaparamita-Hridaya-Sutra as written in Sanskrit, means "the Great Heart of Perfect Wisdom" or "the Heart of Great Transcendent Wisdom." Sunim quotes the Sutra (a sermon of only nine verses, attributed to the Buddha) line for line with a detailed explanation of its meaning.
		The Heart Sutra is dedicated to the teaching of sunyata, translated as the "void" or "emptiness," but sunyata is not easily translated into English.
		The complete text of the Large Sutra of Prajnaparamita was ruthlessly destroyed by Muslim incendiaries in the conflagration of the Buddhist University of Nalanda.
	www.theosophical.org.uk /29HeartSut.htm (1379 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)