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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

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

Parijaya (परिजय) refers to an “investigation”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly: “Again, son of good family, the Bodhisttva, having known that the form is impermanent, practices patience, makes a vigorous effort according to what he understands, concentrates on meditation, and investigates (parijaya) insight. Then he, having known that from the form is impermanent to the form is like grass, trees, walls, paths, and reflections, investigates insight. [...]”.

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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

Parijaya (परिजय).—m. (see next; = Sanskrit paricaya, § 2.28, compare s.vv. paricita, paricetar), intensive cultivation, thorough acquaintance, familiarity, careful consideration (with loc.): Mahāvyutpatti 6532; Bodhisattvabhūmi 11.16 a-parijayād; Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 293.1 prajñāyāṃ parijayaṃ karoṣi; 322.3; 332.9 dhyāna-parijayaṃ ca karoti; 356.14 ānimitte ca parijayaṃ karoti; 370.3 śūnya- tāyāṃ; 370.16, 17. Prakritic j for c: Leumann cited by Wogihara in Bodhisattvabhūmi. Lex. 32. According to Wogihara, in Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 332.9 the word would mean conquest, mastery, from root ji, and also in a ms. citation from Yaśomitra, Abhidharmakośa (compare LaV-P. vi.150) yogācāras trividhaḥ, ādikarmikaḥ, kṛtaparijayaḥ (un maître, LaV-P.), atikrāntamanasikāraś ca. I see no reason to separate these passages from the others. It is clear to me that [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] has only one word parijaya, and I think Leumann's interpretation is the true one. Tibetan on Mahāvyutpatti yoṅs su (= pari) byaṅ bar (some- times purification, but also according to [Tibetan-English Dictionary] skilled; also used for paricita, °cetar, qq.v.; note that Mironov reads parijita, °jetar for these) byas pa (made, the making), or ḥdris par (acquaintance) bya ba (making, being made). Chin. and Japanese seem to follow Tibetan

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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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Starts with: Parijayati.

Full-text: Paricetar, Parijetar, Parijita, Parijayati, Paricita.

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