Prajnaparamita

Prajñāpāramitā significa "la Perfección de la Sabiduría (Trascendente)" en el Budismo Mahāyāna. Prajñāpāramitā se refiere a esta forma perfeccionada de ver la naturaleza de la realidad, así como a un cuerpo particular de sutras y a la personificación del concepto en el Bodhisattva conocido como la "Gran Madre" (tibetano: Yum Chenmo). La palabra Prajñāpāramitā combina las palabras sánscritas prajñā "sabiduría" con pāramitā "perfección". Prajñāpāramitā es un concepto central en el budismo Mahāyāna y generalmente está asociado con la doctrina del vacío (Shunyata) o 'falta de Svabhava' (esencia) y las obras de Nagarjuna. Su práctica y comprensión se consideran elementos indispensables del camino del Bodhisattva.

Según Edward Conze, los Prajñāpāramitā Sutras son "una colección de unos cuarenta textos... compuestos en algún lugar alrededor del subcontinente indio entre aproximadamente 100 aC y 600 dC".^[1] Se piensa que algunos sajras de Prajnāpāramitā están entre los sūtras más antiguos de Mahāyāna.^[2]^[3]

Una de las características importantes de los Sutras de Prajñāpāramitā es anutpada (nonato, sin origen).^[4]^[5]

↑ Conze, E. Perfect Wisdom: The Short Prajnaparamita Texts, Buddhist Publishing Group, 1993
↑ Williams, Paul. Buddhist Thought. Routledge, 2000, pages 131.
↑ Williams, Paul. Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations 2nd edition. Routledge, 2009, pg. 47.
↑ Buswell, Robert; Lopez, Donald S. Jr., eds. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University Press pg. 945 "In the PRAJÑĀPĀRAMITĀ literature and the MADHYAMAKA school, the notion of production comes under specific criticism (see VAJRAKAṆĀ), with NĀGĀRJUNA famously asking, e.g., how an effect can be produced from a cause that is either the same as or different from itself. The prajñāpāramitā sūtras thus famously declare that all dharmas are actually ANUTPĀDA, or “unproduced.”"
↑ King, Richard (1995), Early Advaita Vedānta and Buddhism: The Mahāyāna Context of the Gauḍapādīya-kārikā, SUNY Press pg.113 "It is equally apparent that one of the important features of the Prajnaparamita positition is that of the nonarising (anutpada) of dharmas."

[1] Conze, E. Perfect Wisdom: The Short Prajnaparamita Texts, Buddhist Publishing Group, 1993

[2] Williams, Paul. Buddhist Thought. Routledge, 2000, pages 131.

[3] Williams, Paul. Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations 2nd edition. Routledge, 2009, pg. 47.

[4] Buswell, Robert; Lopez, Donald S. Jr., eds. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University Press pg. 945 "In the PRAJÑĀPĀRAMITĀ literature and the MADHYAMAKA school, the notion of production comes under specific criticism (see VAJRAKAṆĀ), with NĀGĀRJUNA famously asking, e.g., how an effect can be produced from a cause that is either the same as or different from itself. The prajñāpāramitā sūtras thus famously declare that all dharmas are actually ANUTPĀDA, or “unproduced.”"

[5] King, Richard (1995), Early Advaita Vedānta and Buddhism: The Mahāyāna Context of the Gauḍapādīya-kārikā, SUNY Press pg.113 "It is equally apparent that one of the important features of the Prajnaparamita positition is that of the nonarising (anutpada) of dharmas."

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