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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Parapravādin (परप्रवादिन्) refers to “opponents”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly as The Lord said: “O Śāriputra, in the buddha-field of the Tathāgata Ekaratnavyūha, there is a Bodhisattva, the great being Gaganagañja who is resplendent by the splendor of merit (puṇya-tejas), [...] who has obtained the ten powers of the Tathāgatas as adorned with power (bala), is unsurpassed by all opponents (sarva-parapravādi-anabhibhūta) as adorned with intrepidity (vaiśāradya), has attained limitless virtues of a Buddha as adorned with virtue (guṇa), [...]”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Parapravādin (परप्रवादिन्).—(prec. plus -in; not recorded in Pali), false teacher, one who promulgates false doctrine: Mahāvyutpatti 2730 = Tibetan phas kyi rgol ba, which seems the usual term; Mahāvyutpatti 831 °dy-anabhibhūta, said of Bodhisattvas, Tibetan here pha rol gyi rgol ba; Lv 5.19; 273.2; 275.13; 375.1; 377.15; 439.5; 440.8; Divyāvadāna 202.12; Daśabhūmikasūtra 53.15; Sukhāvatīvyūha 60.11 (sarva- parapravādy-akampanatayā); Gaṇḍavyūha 195.8; 221.6, etc. See also para-vādin.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Parapravādin (परप्रवादिन्):—[=para-pravādin] [from para] m. a false teacher, [Divyāvadāna]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Pravadi, Pravadin, Para.

Full-text: Paravadin, Parappavada.

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