Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines
Introduction
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Translator’s introduction & reference material
- Summary
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Overview
- History, Extant Texts, and Commentaries
- Sanskrit
- Chinese
- Tibetan
- Commentaries on the Prajñāpāramitā Scriptures Overall
- Commentaries on the Eight Thousand Itself
- Style and Themes
- Modern-Day Translations of the Eight Thousand
- Notes on This Translation of the Eight Thousand
- “Transcendent State of Wisdom” (prajñāpāramitā)
- “Going About Life” (√car)
- “Mindset of Awakening” (bodhicitta)
- “State of Complete Knowing” (sarvajñatā)
- Dharma
- Negation, Ambiguity, and Word Play
- Summaries of the Text
- Summaries of the Text · continued 2
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Notes · continued 2
- Notes · continued 3
- Notes · continued 4
- Notes · continued 5
- Notes · continued 6
- Notes · continued 7
- Notes · continued 8
- Notes · continued 9
- Notes · continued 10
- Notes · continued 11
- Bibliography
- Glossary
Edition & attribution
84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
First published 2026
Current version v 1.1.2
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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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Connections
Guru Viking1
- Ep267: American Chan Master - Gilbert M Gutierrez
Reference checked in a machine transcript of the official podcast audio.
Source
People & teachers1
- Siddhārtha Gautama · the Buddha
The scripture presents the Buddha’s teaching of the perfection of wisdom.
Source
Traditions & history3
- Mahāyāna movements
One of the earliest surviving Perfection of Wisdom scriptural families.
Source
- Mahāyāna
Study context: this text is included in the Atlas guide to Mahāyāna.
- Madhyamaka
Study context: this text is included in the Atlas guide to Madhyamaka.
Books1
- The Perfection of Wisdom in First Bloom
Direct study of the early Perfection of Wisdom text, using Chinese and Gandhāran evidence.
Source
Topics2
- Emptiness & not-self
Explore Emptiness & not-self across the Atlas.
- Mindfulness & awareness
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The Transcendent State of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines