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Come study with me,” when what he or she will teach instead are so-called Prajnaparamita teachings, which he or she has in fact made up.
Forty-six Faults That Cause Interference for Spiritual Study and Practice 2006
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The last and the most important (and most difficult) was subdivided into further five categories: Prajnaparamita, the perfection of wisdom; Madhyamika, the philosophy of the Middle Way; Vinaya, the canon of monastic discipline; Abidharma, metaphysics; and Pramana, logic and epistemology.
From Birth to Exile 2010
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The last and the most important (and most difficult) was subdivided into further five categories: Prajnaparamita, the perfection of wisdom; Madhyamika, the philosophy of the Middle Way; Vinaya, the canon of monastic discipline; Abidharma, metaphysics; and Pramana, logic and epistemology.
From Birth to Exile 2010
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It is the Prajnaparamita Sutra that Schopenhauer explicitly quotes at the end of the first volume of
Hegel on Buddhism 2007
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Of course, it may be that they were referencing Prajnaparamita and I was just too culturally impoverished to spot it.
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We were re-watching Sontaran Strategem, and I couldn't think what the heck Sylvia Noble holding the axe reminded me of, until I found this again in Cave in the Snow:'Of course, Prajnaparamita is female,' she added, referring to the Mother of All Buddhas.
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The terms Hinayana (Theg-dman) and Mahayana (Theg-chen), meaning modest or “lesser” vehicle and vast or “greater” vehicle, first appeared in The Sutras on Far-reaching Discriminating Awareness (Sher-phyin-gyi mdo, Skt. Prajnaparamita Sutras; The Perfection of Wisdom Sutras), as a way of expressing the superiority of Mahayana.
A Brief History of Buddhism in India before the Thirteenth-Century Invasions 2007
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The Madhyamaka School traces from Nagarjuna, who lived in Andhra between 150 and 250 CE, commenting on The Prajnaparamita Sutras.
A Brief History of Buddhism in India before the Thirteenth-Century Invasions 2007
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In the anuttarayoga tantra accounts, Buddha manifested simultaneously as Shakyamuni teaching The Sutras on Far-reaching Discriminating Awareness (The Prajnaparamita Sutras) and as Vajradhara teaching the tantras.
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Once, when Nagarjuna was teaching Prajnaparamita, six nagas came and formed an umbrella over his head to protect him from the sun.
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