Aṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā

अष्टसाहस्रिकाप्रज्ञापारमिता

Aṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā

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

fo shuo fo mu chu sheng fa cang ban ruo bo luo mi jing

The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines

D12   ·  T224,225,226,227,228

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This sūtra takes the form of a series of dialogues between the Buddha Śākyamuni, Subhūti, Śāriputra, and others such as Indra, the king of gods, and a Goddess of the Ganges, and as well as setting out the teachings on emptiness as such it describes the path and practices that a bodhisattva should take to integrate this understanding of phenomena and finally realize it. A special feature of this particular sūtra are the inspirational narratives of Sadāprarudita and his quest for the teachings on the Perfection of Wisdom from the Bodhisattva Dharmodgata, contained in the final three chapters. (Source: 84000)

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Aṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā (The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines). Recension information:

Sanskrit	आर्याष्टसाहस्रिकाप्रज्ञापारमिता, Āryāṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā. Ashṭasāhasrikā: A Collection of Discourses on the Metaphysics of the Mahāyāna School of the Buddhists. Edited by Rajendralal Mitra. Bibliotheca lndica 110. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1888. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89054419122&view=1up&seq=10&skin=2021. Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā, with Haribhadra's Commentary called Ālokā. Edited by P. L. Vaidya. Buddhist Sanskrit Texts 4. Darbhanga, Bihar: Mithila Institute, 1960. https://archive.org/details/astasahasrikaprajnaparamitawithalokaofharibhaddharasutravaidyap.l.mithalainstitutedarbhanga_929_e/page/n3/mode/2up. See this text in the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon: http://www.dsbcproject.org/canon-text/book/68. Abhisamayālaṃkārāloka Prajñāpāramitā-vyākhyā (Commentary on the Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā), by Haribhadra, Together with the Text Commented on. Edited by Unrai Wogihara. 2 vols. Tokyo: Toyo Bunko, 1932-1935. Aṣṭa-sāhasrikā prajñāparamitā: A Sanskrit Manuscript from Nepal. Edited by Lokesh Chandra. Śata-Piṭaka series 265. New Delhi: Sharada Rani, 1981 Ārya Śrīaṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitāsūtram: Ācārya Haribhadraviracita Abhisamayālaṅkārāloka Prajñāpāramitāvyākhyā Sahita; Mūla Saṃskr̥ta va Nepālabhāṣā Artha Sahita. Edited by Herākājī Vajrācārya. Translated by Divyavajra Vajrācārya. Lalitapura, Nepal: Loṭasa Rīsarca Senṭara, 2003.
Tibetan	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). rKTs (Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur Studies) Link: https://www.istb.univie.ac.at/kanjur/rktsneu/verif/verif2.php?id=12. Derge 12, brgyad stong, vol. 33, ka 1b1-286a6, translated by Śākyasena, Jñānasiddhi, Dharmatāśīla, etc.
Chinese	大般若經第四會 (Dà bōrě jīng dì sì huì), T220(4), https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0220.html, translated by Xuanzang. 大般若經第五會 (Dà bōrě jīng dì wǔ huì), T220(5), https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0220.html, translated by Xuanzang. 佛母出生三法藏般若波羅蜜多經 (Fo mu ch'u sheng san fa ts'ang po jo po lo mi to ching), T228, 08: https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0228.html, translated by Dānapāla. 小品般若波羅蜜經 (Hsiao p'in pan jo po lo mi ching), T227, 09: https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0227.html, translated by Kumārajīva. 摩訶般若抄經 (Mo ho pan jo ch'ao ching), T226, 08: https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0226.html, translated by Dharmapriya and Chu Fo-nien. 大明度經 (Ta ming tu ching), T225, 08: https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0225.html, translated by Chih-ch'ien. 道行般若經 (Tao hsing pan jo ching). T224, 08: https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0224.html, translated by Lokakṣema. Karashima, Seishi, ed. A Critical Edition of Lokakṣema's Translation of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā. Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica 12. Tokyo: International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University, 2011. Link.

Text Metadata

Other Titles	~ brgyad stong pa ~ sher phyin brgyad stong pa ~ ārya-aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā
Text exists in	~ Sanskrit ~ Tibetan ~ Chinese ~ Japanese
Canonical Genre	~ Kangyur · Sūtra · sher phyin · Prajñāpāramitā
Literary Genre	~ Sūtras - mdo

sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt. सूत्र Tib. མདོ། Ch. 佛经

Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt. बोधिसत्त्व Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ། Ch. 菩薩

Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt. प्रज्ञापारमिता Tib. ཤེར་ཕྱིན་,ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་ Ch. 般若波羅蜜多

Śata - Śatasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā

Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt. प्रज्ञापारमिता Tib. ཤེར་ཕྱིན་,ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་ Ch. 般若波羅蜜多