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Exposition of the Prajnaparamita Sutra - Toh 1758
Background
This sutra belongs to the Prajnaparamita Sutra collection in the Mahayana Northern Tibetan tradition, one of the most important collections of scriptures in Northern Buddhism. The Prajnaparamita collection is a gathering of the most profound sutras on transcendent wisdom (prajna), teaching that wisdom is not ordinary knowledge but direct recognition of the selfless (anatman) and impermanent (anicca) nature of all phenomena.
In the Northern Tibetan tradition, the Prajnaparamita sutras play a foundational role in the bodhisattva path, the path leading to buddhahood. Unlike the Lesser Vehicle, which focuses on individual liberation, the Mahayana extends the awakened mind toward the aim of saving all beings. The Prajnaparamita collection provides theory and practice concerning wisdom unbound by concepts, helping practitioners overcome all cognitive obscurations.
Main Content
Although the sutra's title has not been clearly recorded, Prajnaparamita sutras such as Toh 1758 from the Northern Tibetan tradition often teach the principle of "emptiness" (Sunyata) and "the forbearance of the non-arising of dharmas" (Anutpattika-dharma-ksanti), the confidence in the unborn nature of all dharmas.
According to the Northern Tibetan tradition, Prajnaparamita is not accumulated or discriminating knowledge, but direct wisdom that recognizes that all phenomena have the nature of emptiness: they have no independent essence, no intrinsic nature (svabhava). Bodhisattvas cultivate Prajnaparamita through the six perfections (Sat-paramita): generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, meditative concentration, and finally transcendent wisdom.
The sutra teaches that those who cultivate Prajnaparamita are not bound by notions of the practitioner, the recipient of merit, or merit itself. This is the "emptiness of the three spheres" (Tri-mandala-sunyata), that is, the absence of the three: subject, object, and action. This is the key point by which bodhisattvas overcome all obscurations of dharmas and of mind.
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