The large sutra on perfect wisdom, with the divisions of the Abhisamayālaṅkāra

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My review is based on an old out-of-print hardbound copy published 1975. I trust that the softbound edition offered here is essentially the same.rnAbout 2000 years ago, 500 years after the Buddha lived, there began to appear in India a series of writings which transformed Buddhism. The oldest of these is The Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Eight Thousand Lines. It is so revered that it is often depicted sitting on a flower by the left ears of some of the major Buddhist holy beings such as Manjushri, Prajnaparamita, and Je Tsongkhapa. Over the next few hundred years a number of similar but longer Perfection of Wisdom Sutras appeared, in 10K, 18K, 25K and 100K lines. After that a series of condensations then appeared, among them The Diamond Sutra (300 lines) and The Heart Sutra (25 lines). From these writings comes the Mahayana tradition that spread throughout much of northern Asia, evolving into the various forms of Tibetan, Zen and Pure Land Buddhism. The major contributions of this new body of literature were twofold: first, the introduction of a new spiritual ideal, the Bodhisattva"

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BQ 1952 .E5 C66 1990

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Motilal Banarsidass; INDIA : Motilal Banarsidass., 1990

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xviii, 679 p. ; 24 cm.

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English

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9788120807529

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Buddhism

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Statement of Responsibility

a more profound and radical philosophy of

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