Summary
The Transcendent State of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines is a keystone of the Prajñāpāramitā literature. It presents the Buddha’s teaching on the topic in a relatively compact text that nevertheless covers the entire range of important points he taught, and is therefore considered to be one of the six “mother” works. It has been hugely influential in Mahāyāna Buddhist thought across Asia, and gave rise to many commentaries in India and Tibet.
These are the editions cited elsewhere in the Atlas; wording and numbering may differ from the reading shown here.
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84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
First published 2026
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འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་བརྒྱད་སྟོང་པ།
’phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa brgyad stong pa
The Noble Transcendent State of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines
Āryāṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā
· Toh 12 ·
Degé Kangyur, vol. 33 (brgyad stong, ka), folios 1.b–286.a
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Reference checked in a machine transcript of the official podcast audio.
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The Transcendent State of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines