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Exposition of the Prajnaparamita Scripture (Toh 3653) — Northern Tibetan Transmission
Context
This scripture belongs to the Prajnaparamita Collection (Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra) in the Mahayana tradition of the Northern Tibetan Transmission, one of the most important scriptures of the Mahayana Buddhadharma. The Prajnaparamita Collection includes more than 600 scriptures containing teachings on Transcendent Wisdom, which gathers all dharmas within a luminous wisdom that rises above the limitations of ordinary cognition.
This scripture is regarded as the heart-seed of all the Prajnaparamita scriptures. It teaches that the bodhisattva path, the path of those who aspire to buddhahood in order to liberate immeasurable sentient beings, must be practiced through the six paramitas: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, meditation, and wisdom. This wisdom is not accumulated knowledge, but direct realization of the unreal nature of all dharmas (śūnyatā, Emptiness).
Main Content
In the spirit of the Prajnaparamita Collection, the scripture teaches that bodhisattvas must train by deeply understanding that there is no bodhisattva, no Buddha, and no sentient being to be liberated. This does not deny existence, but points out that all these concepts are only provisional labels on the basis of absolute Emptiness.
The scripture emphasizes that bodhisattvas who have completed Prajnaparamita wisdom perform countless compassionate actions (karuṇā) without any notion of an agent, a reward, or a beneficiary. This is action without calculation, without attachment (anutpāda).
These teachings are transmitted through symbolic modes of teaching, paradoxes (yang commonly found in Prajnaparamita), and questions and answers between the Buddha and bodhisattvas or eminent monks, in order to break through preliminary views and lead scholars into non-conceptual wisdom (nirvikalpajñāna).
Practical Meaning
In modern practice, this scripture guides Buddhists to follow the bodhisattva path by balancing practical compassion (helping concrete sentient beings) with the wisdom of Emptiness.
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