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Exposition of the Prajnaparamita Sutra (Toh 3192)
Mahayana Tradition — Northern Canon
Background
This sutra belongs to the Prajnaparamita Sutra collection, the heart of the Mahayana Buddhadharma, especially in the Northern canonical tradition. The Prajnaparamita sutras were translated from Sanskrit into Chinese and Tibetan in succession, reflecting the development of Buddhist thought from the second to the eighth centuries CE.
The Prajnaparamita collection consists of teachings given by Shakyamuni Buddha at Vulture Peak, where bodhisattvas and countless celestial beings gathered. These sutras are not the first exposition of prajna, transcendent insight, but the most profound development of the nature of emptiness and the buddha-nature of all sentient beings. In the Mahayana context, Prajnaparamita is not merely the merit or personal attainment of one individual, but the common path of liberation by which all sentient beings may become buddhas.
Main Contents
Although the sutra title has not been fully recorded in the descriptive information, according to the tradition of the Prajnaparamita collection, Toh 3192 typifies teachings on the emptiness (shunyata) of all dharmas, which is the philosophical foundation of the Madhyamaka school and the Yogacara school within the Mahayana.
The sutra teaches that dharmas have no self-nature (svabhava) and cannot be separated from conditions. A bodhisattva practicing Prajnaparamita must realize that there is no subject who practices (avastutvad), no Buddha to become, no sentient beings to liberate, and no path of liberation to perfect. Yet precisely because of this emptiness, the buddha-nature of all sentient beings is absolutely affirmed. The relationship between emptiness and existence, between the relative and the absolute, is unified in the Middle Way (Madhyama-pratipad).
Classical Prajnaparamita passages also emphasize the role of bodhisattva mind, the mind that gives rise to bodhicitta without a trace. This is the mind of limitless benefit for others, yet it does not cling to the concepts of "I" or "others."
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