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Adhyardhaśatikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra (150 Verses)

DESCRIPTION

Adhyardhaśatikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra (“The perfection of wisdom in 150 lines”) is a Praǰñāpāramitā text in Tantric style. It contains fifteen chapters, fourteen of which are spoken by a number of Buddhas, who expound the various methods of Praǰñāpāramitā. Each expository chapter is summarized by means of a mystic syllable. The text survives in the Sanskrit original and in translations: into Chinese (six translations and two comment; extant), Tibetan, Mongol, and Khotanese. The Khotanese version was one of the earliest Khotanese texts to be studied.

TRANSLATIONS

There are six Chinese translations of this sutra.

Xuanzang