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Prajñāpāramitā (Sanskrit: प्रज्ञापारमिता) means "the Perfection of Wisdom" or "Transcendental Knowledge" in Mahāyāna. Prajñāpāramitā refers to a perfected way of seeing the nature of reality, as well as to a particular body of Mahāyāna scriptures (sūtras) which discusses this wisdom.

Prajñāpāramitā may also refer to the female deity Prajñāpāramitā Devi, a personification of the perfection wisdom also known as the "Great Mother" (Tibetan: Yum Chenmo) who was widely depicted in South Asian Buddhist art.

The word Prajñāpāramitā combines the Sanskrit words prajñā "wisdom" (or "knowledge") with pāramitā "perfection" or "transcendent". Prajñāpāramitā is a central concept in Mahāyāna Buddhism and is generally associated with ideas such as emptiness (śūnyatā), 'lack of svabhāva' (essence), the illusory (māyā) nature of things, how all phenomena are characterized by "non-arising" (anutpāda, i.e. unborn) and the madhyamaka thought of Nāgārjuna. Its practice and understanding are taken to be indispensable elements of the Bodhisattva path.

According to Edward Conze, the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras are "a collection of about forty texts ... composed somewhere on the Indian subcontinent between approximately 100 BC and AD 600." Some Prajnāpāramitā sūtras are thought to be among the earliest Mahāyāna sūtras.

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March 26th, 1992, Serial No. 00603

Platform Sutra, Branching Streams, Four Noble Truths, Perfect Wisdom, Sixth Patriarch...
Mar 26 1992

March 21st, 1992, Serial No. 00678, Side A

Lotus Sutra, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Perfect Wisdom, Bodhisattva Vow, Dragons...
Mar 21 1992

March 5th, 1992, Serial No. 00650

Perfect Wisdom, Mahayana, Heart Sutra, Lotus Sutra, Nirvana, Continuous, Half-Smile,...
Mar 05 1992

October 13th, 1990, Serial No. 00494, Side A

Heart Sutra, Chanting, Doubt, Hindrances, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Posture,...
Oct 13 1990

1986.11.02-serial.00326

Posture, Perfect Wisdom, Delusion, Letting Go, Buddha Mind
Nov 02 1986

The Bodhisattva Archetype

Serial: SF-00002

Sunday Lecture

Manjushri, Nirvana, Vows, Non-duality, Perfect Wisdom, training, Daily Life, Passions...
Aug 03 1986
Green Gulch Farm

Dogen's Fukanzazengi and Practice Realization

Serial: BZ-00043A

Saturday Lecture

Duality, Perfect Wisdom, Dragons, Doubt, Sixth Patriarch, Absolute-and-Relative,...
Oct 23 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

March 12th, 1982, Serial No. 00148

Buddha Nature, Buddha Mind, Perfect Wisdom, Nirvana, Liberation, Compassion,...
Mar 12 1982

The Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom

Serial: SF-00007B

Reading of Dr Edward Conze's translation - this is after 00007A and separate from it.

Perfect Wisdom, true dharma, Evil, Concentration, Karma, Anger
Apr 25 1980

March 1972 talk, Serial No. 00176

Perfect Wisdom, Conversation, Nirvana, resistance, Greed, Liberation, Culture,...
Mar 1972

June 20th, 1971, Serial No. 00252

Precepts, Perfect Wisdom, Religion, Demons, Offering, Interview, lecture, American...
Jun 20 1971

Freedom from Everything

Serial: SR-00150

Sesshin Lecture, Day 5
Wednesday, June 9, 1971
San Francisco

Sesshin, Happiness, Demons, Precepts, Perfect Wisdom, Attachment, New Year, zen,...
Jun 09 1971
City Center

April 25th, 1971, Serial No. 00330

Breath, Perfect Wisdom, Describe, Building, Instruction, Tassajara, Lay, Ceremony,...
Apr 25 1971

December 2nd, 1969, Serial No. 00040

Echo, lecture, difficulty, Perfect Wisdom, Balance, Don't Know Mind, Meditation...
Dec 02 1969

Shosan Ceremony

Serial: SR-00213

Tassajara
September, 1969

[Beginning of ceremony not recorded.]

Sesshin, Shosan, Perfect Wisdom, Dragons, Breath, Death, Intuition, Lay, Bell,...
Sep 1969
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-5

Serial: SR-00100

Fall, 1968

Lotus Sutra, Wisdom, Discrimination, Perfect Wisdom, Monks, Mahayana, Buddha Nature,...
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 5
Tassajara

Lotus Sūtra No. I-1

Serial: SR-00110

Lotus Sutra No. 1
Tassajara
February 1968

Lotus Sutra, Monks, Perfect Wisdom, Meditation, Describe, Wisdom, Precepts, Constancy...
Feb 1968
Series 2, Talk 1
Tassajara

Lotus Sūtra No. I-3

Serial: SR-00117

February 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Wisdom, Dana, Perfect Wisdom, Intention, Monks, Sutra, Precepts,...
Feb 1968
Series 1, Talk 3
Tassajara

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