Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Eight Thousand Lines
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[[Image:Prajnaparamita.jpg|thumb|The goddess Prajñaparamita)]
Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Eight Thousand Lines (Skt. Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā), consisting of 32 chapters, is, according to scholars, the earliest of the Perfection of Wisdom sutras. Its popular verse summary is known as the Verse Summary of the Prajnaparamita.
Commentaries
Indian
- Haribhadra, Light Ornament: A Great Commentary on the 8,000 Verses
- Ratnakarashanti, Supreme Essence (Sarottama)
- Abhayakaragupta, Moonlight of Points (Marmakaumudi)
Famous Quotations
སེམས་ལ་སེམས་མ་མཆིས་ཏེ། །
སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ནི་འོད་གསལ་བའོ། །[1]
The mind is devoid of mind,
For the nature of mind is clear light.
Translations
- Edward Conze, Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Lines and its Verse Summary, (1958)
Further Reading
- Edward Conze, The Prajñāpāramitā Literature (1960)
Footnotes
- ↑ Although the paraphrase has become the standard, the actual quotation in the text reads:
འདི་ལྟར་སེམས་དེ་ནི་སེམས་མ་མཆིས་པ་སྟེ། །
སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ནི་འོད་གསལ་བ་ལགས་སོ། །
Source
RigpaWiki:Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Eight Thousand Lines