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While the term prajñā can refer to all kinds of understanding and discernment of Buddhist truths (such as understanding the four noble truths, the various dharmas taught in Abhidharma, the various Buddhist theories of rebirth and enlightenment etc.), the highest kind of prajñā in Mahayana is Prajñāpāramitā, the "Perfection of Wisdom".
A Definition Etymology In other languages abhidhamma A category of scriptures that attempts to use Buddhist teachings to create a systematic, abstract description of all worldly phenomena abhi is "above" or "about", dhamma is "teaching" Pāli: abhidhamma Sanskrit: abhidharma Bur: အဘိဓမ္မာ abhidhamma Khmer: អភិធម្ម âphĭthômm Tib: ཆོས་མངོན་པ ...
Prajna or Prajñā may refer to: ... Prajñā (Buddhism), a Buddhist concept; Prajna (Buddhist monk), an important 9th century Buddhist monk from Gandhara; See also
It is very similar to the first Chinese translation of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā by Lokakṣema (ca. 179 CE) whose source text is assumed to be in the Gāndhārī language; Lokakṣema's translation is also the first extant translation of the Prajñāpāramitā genre into a non-Indic language. Comparison with the standard Sanskrit text shows that ...
English translation of the Heart Sutra with Korean Seon commentary 2013 ISBN 978-1-61429-053-7: Kazuaki Tanahashi: The Heart Sutra: A Comprehensive Guide to the Classic of Mahayana Buddhism: Shambhala Publications: English translation of the Heart Sutra with history and commentary 2015 ISBN 978-1-61180-096-8: Peter Lunde Johnson
A General Explanation: The Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra [30] Buddhist Text Translation Society 2002 ISBN 0881394300: Nan Huai-Chin: The Diamond Sutra Explained: Primodia Media 2004 ISBN 0-9716561-2-6: A.F. Price and Wong Mou-Lam Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-neng: Shambhala Classics Translation of the Diamond Sūtra and Platform Sutra: 2005
V.S. Apte provides fourteen different meanings for the Sanskrit word prāṇa (प्राण) including breath or respiration; [4] the breath of life, vital air, principle of life (usually plural in this sense, there being five such vital airs generally assumed, but three, six, seven, nine, and even ten are also spoken of); [4] [5] energy or ...
Prajñā (Chinese: 般若三藏 or 般若; pinyin: Bōrě Sāncáng or Bō Rě, 734 [1]), was a 9th-century Buddhist monk born in Kapisa, near modern Kabul, Afghanistan. [2] He visited Tang China and contributed several important retranslations of Sanskrit sutras into Chinese. Some of his main works are: The Avatamsaka Sutra (Chinese: 華嚴經)