shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa: 2 definitions

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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

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shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa (ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ) (Tibetan; in Sanskrit: prajñāpāramitā) — (lit. “Perfection of wisdom”) — One of the six or ten perfections that must be mastered by a bodhisattva; also, a corpus of literature related to wisdom. The main subject matter of the corpus is the career of the bodhisattva, with a special emphasis on the compassionate methods he or she must develop, and the wisdom realizing emptiness that he or she must attain

Source: Google Books: The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems
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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

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[«previous next»] — shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa in Tibetan glossary

shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa (ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ) (in Tibetan) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:

1) 慧波羅蜜多 [huì bō luó mì duō]: “transcendent wisdom”.
2) 智波羅蜜多 [zhì bō luó mì duō]: “transcendent practice of cognition”.
3) 般若波羅蜜 [bān ruò bō luó mì]: “perfection of wisdom”.
4) 般若波羅蜜多 [bān ruò bō luó mì duō]: “prajñā-pāramitā”.

Source: DILA Glossaries: Tibetan-Chinese-English (dictionary of Buddhism)
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