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Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines

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The seven Chinese translations, made from the second through the tenth century ᴄᴇ, are as follows:

The Daoxing jing (道行經) or Daoxing banruo jing (道行般若經), Taishō 224, translated by Lokakṣema and others, probably from a Gāndhāri original, and dated by its colophon to 179 ᴄᴇ.7

The Da mingdu jing (大明度經), Taishō 225, translated in the early third century, for the most part by Zhi Qian except for its rather different first chapter, which is thought to be the work of another translator.8

The Mohebanruo chaojing (摩訶般若鈔經), Taishō 226, canonically attributed to *Dharmapriya and Zhu Fonian and dated to 382 ᴄᴇ, although this is thought doubtful by some scholars.9

The Mohebanruo boluomi jing (摩訶般若波羅蜜經) or Xiaopin banruo boluomi jing (小品般若波羅蜜經), Taishō 227, translated by Kumārajīva in the early fifth century.

Two of the sections or “assemblies” of the Da banruo boluomiduo jing (大般若波羅蜜多經), Taishō 220, the great compilation of Prajñāpāramitā texts translated by Xuanzang in the seventh century:

the fourth in 29 chapters (vol. VII, 763b–865a), from an original in eight thousand lines, and

the fifth in 24 chapters (vol. VII, 865c–920b), similar in content but much shorter.

The Fo shuo fomu chusheng san fazang banruoboluomi jing (佛說佛母出生三法藏般若波羅蜜多經), Taishō 228, translated by *Dānapāla in the late tenth or early eleventh century.

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84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha

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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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The Transcendent State of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines