Difference between revisions of "Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Eight Thousand Lines"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(Created page with "thumb|The goddess [[Prajñaparamita]] '''Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Eight Thousand Lines''' (Skt. ''Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramit...") |
|||
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
[[Image:Prajnaparamita.jpg|thumb|The goddess [[Prajñaparamita]]]] | [[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 [[Prajnaparamita|Perfection of Wisdom]] [[sutra]]s. Its popular verse summary is known as the ''[[Verse Summary of the Prajnaparamita]]''. | + | '''[[Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Eight Thousand Lines]]''' (Skt. ''[[Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā]]''), consisting of 32 chapters, is, according to [[scholars]], the earliest of the [[Prajnaparamita|Perfection of Wisdom]] [[sutra]]s. Its popular verse summary is known as the ''[[Verse Summary of the Prajnaparamita]]''. |
==Commentaries== | ==Commentaries== | ||
− | ===Indian=== | + | ===[[Indian]]=== |
− | *[[Haribhadra]], ''Light Ornament: A Great Commentary on the 8,000 Verses'' | + | *[[Haribhadra]], ''[[Light Ornament: A Great Commentary on the 8,000 Verses]]'' |
− | *[[Ratnakarashanti]], ''Supreme Essence ([[Sarottama]])'' | + | *[[Ratnakarashanti]], ''Supreme [[Essence]] ([[Sarottama]])'' |
− | *[[Abhayakaragupta]], ''Moonlight of Points ([[Marmakaumudi]])'' | + | *[[Abhayakaragupta]], ''[[Moonlight]] of Points ([[Marmakaumudi]])'' |
==Famous Quotations== | ==Famous Quotations== | ||
{{BigTibetan|སེམས་ལ་སེམས་མ་མཆིས་ཏེ། །}}<br /> | {{BigTibetan|སེམས་ལ་སེམས་མ་མཆིས་ཏེ། །}}<br /> | ||
− | {{BigTibetan|སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ནི་འོད་གསལ་བའོ། །}}<ref>Although the paraphrase has become the standard, the actual quotation in the text reads:<br /> | + | {{BigTibetan|སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ནི་འོད་གསལ་བའོ། །}}<ref>Although the {{Wiki|paraphrase}} has become the standard, the actual quotation in the text reads:<br /> |
{{BigTibetan|འདི་ལྟར་སེམས་དེ་ནི་སེམས་མ་མཆིས་པ་སྟེ། །}}<br /> | {{BigTibetan|འདི་ལྟར་སེམས་དེ་ནི་སེམས་མ་མཆིས་པ་སྟེ། །}}<br /> | ||
{{BigTibetan|སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ནི་འོད་གསལ་བ་ལགས་སོ། །}}</ref><br /> | {{BigTibetan|སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ནི་འོད་གསལ་བ་ལགས་སོ། །}}</ref><br /> | ||
The [[mind]] is devoid of [[mind]],<br /> | The [[mind]] is devoid of [[mind]],<br /> | ||
− | For the nature of mind is clear light.<br /> | + | For the [[nature of mind is clear light]].<br /> |
:::''[[Buddha Shakyamuni|Śākyamuni]]'', [[Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Eight Thousand Lines|Eight Thousand Verse Prajñāparamitā]] | :::''[[Buddha Shakyamuni|Śākyamuni]]'', [[Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Eight Thousand Lines|Eight Thousand Verse Prajñāparamitā]] | ||
Revision as of 12:34, 24 December 2015
![](/en/images/thumb/b/ba/Prajnaparamita.jpg/300px-Prajnaparamita.jpg)
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