The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines
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Translator’s introduction & reference material
- Summary
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Overview
- History and Sources
- Structure and Content Compared to Those of the Other Long Perfection of Wisdom Sūtras
- The Commentaries
- Translations and Studies in Western Languages
- A Brief Synopsis of the Sūtra’s Chapters
- The Protagonists: Śāriputra, Subhūti, Śakra, and the Others
- Selected Features of the Sūtra
- Sources and Features of the Translation
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Notes · continued 2
- Notes · continued 3
- Notes · continued 4
- Notes · continued 5
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Glossary · continued 2
- Glossary · continued 3
Edition & attribution
84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
First published 2026
Current version v 1.0.23
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འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་སྟོང་ཕྲག་བརྒྱ་པ།
’phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phrag brgya pa
The Noble Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines
Āryaśatasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā
· Toh 8 ·
Degé Kangyur, (’bum, ka), folios 1.b–394.a; (’bum, kha), folios 1.b–402.a; (’bum, ga), folios 1.b–394.a; (’bum, nga), folios 1.b–381.a; (’bum, ca), folios 1.b–395.a; (’bum, cha), folios 1.b–382.a; (’bum, ja), folios 1.b–398.a; (’bum, nya), folios 1.b–399.a; (’bum, ta), folios 1.b–384.a; (’bum, tha), folios 1.b–387.a; (’bum, da), folios 1.b–411.a; and (’bum, a), folios 1.b–395.a (vols. 14–25)
For referencing Tibetan sources, please see our Scholar’s Edition
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Connections
Guru Viking1
- Ep267: American Chan Master - Gilbert M Gutierrez
Reference checked in a machine transcript of the official podcast audio.
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People & teachers1
- Siddhārtha Gautama · the Buddha
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Traditions & history4
- Mahāyāna movements
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- Mahāyāna
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- Madhyamaka
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- Tibetan traditions
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Books1
- The Perfection of Wisdom in First Bloom
Related study of early Perfection of Wisdom literature, focused on the Eight Thousand Lines; not a commentary on the Hundred Thousand Lines.
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Topics2
- Emptiness & not-self
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- Mindfulness & awareness
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The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines