Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

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

This page describes “destroying the traces of the conflicting emotions” 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.

VIII. Destroying the traces of the conflicting emotions

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Preliminary note on destroying the traces of the conflicting emotions

I. The destruction of the traces of conflicting emotions

II. Conflicting emptions and the traces of conflicting emotions

III. The traces of passion persist in the saints

IV. The traces of passion are destroyed in the Buddha

V. Why the Buddha eliminates the traces

VI. Where the destruction of the traces is located

Sūtra (Pañcaviṃśati, p. 21, l. 9–11; Śatasāhasrikā, p. 67, l. 8–10). – The bodhisattva-mahāsattva who wants to destroy the traces of all the conflicting emotions by means of knowledge should exert himself in the perfection of wisdom. It is thus, O Śāriputra, that the bodhisattva-mahāsattva should practice the perfection of wisdom (Sarvākārajñatayā kleśavāsanāḥ prahātukāmena bodhisattvena mahāsattvena prajñāpāramitāyāṃ yogaḥ karaṇīyaḥ. Evam eva Śāriputra bodhisattvena mahāsattvena prajñāpāramitāyāṃ śikṣitavyam).

Śāstra. –

Last Updated: 28 September, 2019