Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön | 2001 | 941,039 words

This page describes “world of transmigration” as written by Nagarjuna in his Maha-prajnaparamita-sastra (lit. “the treatise on the great virtue of wisdom”) in the 2nd century. This book, written in five volumes, represents an encyclopedia on Buddhism as well as a commentary on the Pancavimsatisahasrika Prajnaparamita.

The world of transmigration

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Note: This picture of Buddhist transmigration presents several points of contact with the Ṣadgatikārikā of Dhārmika Subhuti, edited, translated and compared with the Pāli, Tibetan and Chinese versions by P. Mus, La Lumière sur les Six Voies, 1936. Compare also Karmavibhaṅga, chap. XV-XXII, ed. Lévi, p. 44–47.

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