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Prajñāpāramitā (Sanskrit: प्रज्ञापारमिता) means the "Perfection of Wisdom" or "Perfection of Transcendental Wisdom". Prajñāpāramitā practices lead to discerning pristine cognition in a self-reflexively aware way, of seeing the nature of reality. There is a particular body of Mahayana sutras (scriptures) on this wisdom, and they form the practice sadhanas, such as the Heart Sutra.

The Transcendent Wisdom of the Prajanaparamita also transcends any single vehicle (yana) of Buddhist philosophy, as explained in the "Heart Sutra" through the replies Avalokiteshvara gives to Shariputra's question of how should sons and daughters of noble qualities practice the Prajnaparamita:

"All the Buddhas of the three times by relying on the Prajnaparamita

Awaken completely

To the perfect, unsurpassable enlightenment."

Prajñāpāramitā may also refer to the female deity Prajñāpāramitā Devi, a samboghakaya Buddha of transcendental wisdom also known as the "Great Mother" (Tibetan: Yum Chenmo) who was widely depicted in Asian Buddhist art.

The word Prajñāpāramitā combines the Sanskrit words prajñā "wisdom" (or "knowledge") with pāramitā "perfection" or "transcendent". Prajñāpāramitā is a central concept in Mahāyāna Buddhism and is generally associated with ideas such as emptiness (śūnyatā), 'lack of svabhāva' (essence), the illusory (māyā) nature of things, how all phenomena are characterized by "non-arising" (anutpāda, i.e. unborn) and the madhyamaka thought of Nāgārjuna. Its practice and understanding are taken to be indispensable elements of the Bodhisattva path.

According to Edward Conze, the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras are "a collection of about forty texts ... composed somewhere on the Indian subcontinent between approximately 100 BC and AD 600." Some Prajnāpāramitā sūtras are thought to be among the earliest Mahāyāna sūtras.

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Freedom from Everything

Serial: SR-00150

Sesshin Lecture, Day 5
Wednesday, June 9, 1971
San Francisco

Sesshin, Happiness, Demons, Precepts, Perfect Wisdom, Attachment, New Year, zen,...
Jun 09 1971
City Center

Shosan Ceremony

Serial: SR-00213

Tassajara
September, 1969

[Beginning of ceremony not recorded.]

Sesshin, Shosan, Perfect Wisdom, Dragons, Breath, Death, Intuition, Lay, Bell,...
Sep 1969
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-5

Serial: SR-00100

Fall, 1968

Lotus Sutra, Wisdom, Discrimination, Perfect Wisdom, Monks, Mahayana, Buddha Nature,...
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 5
Tassajara

Lotus Sūtra No. I-1

Serial: SR-00110

Lotus Sutra No. 1
Tassajara
February 1968

Lotus Sutra, Monks, Perfect Wisdom, Meditation, Wisdom, Precepts, Constancy, Demons,...
Feb 1968
Series 2, Talk 1
Tassajara

Lotus Sūtra No. I-3

Serial: SR-00117

February 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Wisdom, Dana, Perfect Wisdom, Intention, Monks, Sutra, Precepts,...
Feb 1968
Series 1, Talk 3
Tassajara

OLD - In the Prajnaparamita Sutra

Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Wisdom, Perfect Wisdom, Beginners, Politics, Balance,...
Jan 21 1966
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