Abbreviations

AAV: Āryavimuktisena (’phags pa rnam grol sde). ’phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phrag nyi shu lnga pa’i man ngag gi bstan bcos mngon par rtogs pa’i rgyan gyi tshig le’ur byas pa’i rnam par ’grel pa (Ārya­pañca­viṃśati­sāhasrikā­prajñā-pāramitopadeśa­śāstrābhisamayālaṃkāra­kārikā­vārttika).

AAVN: Āryavimuktisena. Abhisamayālamkāra­vrtti (mistakenly titled Abhisamayālaṅkāra­vyākhyā). Nepal German Manuscript Preservation Project A 37/9, National Archives Kathmandu Accession Number 5/55. The numbers follow the page numbering of Sparham’s undated, unpublished transliteration of the part of the manuscript not included in Pensa 1967.

Abhisamayālaṃkāra: shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa’i man ngag gi bstan bcos mngon par rtogs pa’i rgyan zhes bya ba tshig le’ur byas pa (Abhisamayālaṃkāra-nāma-prajñā­pāramitopadeśa­śāstra­kārikā) [The Ornament for the Clear Realizations]. Numbering of the verses as in the Unrai Wogihara edition: Abhisamayālaṃkārālokā Prajñā­pāramitā Vyākhyā: The Work of Haribhadra.

Amano: Amano, Koei H. Abhisamayālaṃkāra-kārikā-śāstra-vivṛti.

Aṣṭa: Aṣṭa­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā . Page numbers are Wogihara (1973) that includes the edition of Mitra (1888).

Buddhaśrī: shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa sdud pa’i tshig su byas pa’i dka’ ’grel (Prajñā­pāramitā­saṃcaya­gāthā­pañjikā).

Bṭ1: Anonymous/Daṃṣṭrāsena. shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa ’bum gyi rgya cher ’grel (Śata­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā­bṛhaṭ­ṭīkā) [Bṛhaṭ­ṭīkā].

Bṭ3: Vasubandhu/Daṃṣṭrāsena. ’phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa ’bum dang / nyi khri lnga sgong pa dang / khri brgyad stong pa rgya cher bshad pa (Ārya­śatasāhasrikā­pañca­viṃśati­sāhasrikāṣṭā­daśa-sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā­bṭhaṭ­ṭīkā) [Bṛhaṭṭīkā]. English translation in Sparham 2022.

C: Choné (co ne) Kangyur and Tengyur.

D: Degé (sde dge) Kangyur and Tengyur.

Edg: Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary.

Eight Thousand: Conze, Edward. The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines & Its Verse Summary .

GRETIL: Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages.

Ghoṣa: Ghoṣa, Pratāpachandra, ed. Śata­sāhasrikā Prajñā­pāramitā.

Gilgit: Gilgit Buddhist Manuscripts.

GilgitC: Edward Conze, ed. and trans. The Gilgit Manuscript of the Aṣṭādaśasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā: Chapters 55 to 70 Corresponding to the 5th Abhisamaya.

Gyurme (khri pa): Gyurme Dorje. The Transcendent Perfection of Wisdom in Ten Thousand Lines .

H: Lhasa (zhol) Kangyur and Tengyur.

K: Peking (Kangxi) Kangyur and Tengyur.

LC: Lokesh Candra. Tibetan Sanskrit Dictionary.

LSPW: Conze, Edward. The Large Sutra on Perfection Wisdom (Conze 1984).

MDPL: Conze, Edward. Materials for a Dictionary of the Prajñāpāramitā Literature.

MQ: Conze, Edward and Shotaro Iida. “Maitreya’s Questions” in the Prajñāpāramitā.

MW: Monier-Williams, M. A. A Sanskrit–English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages.

Mppś: Lamotte, Étienne. Le Traité de la Grande Vertu de Sagesse de Nāgārjuna (Mahā­prajñā-pāramitā-śāstra).

Mppś English: Gelongma Karma Migme Chodron. The Treatise on the Great Virtue of Wisdom of Nāgārjuna.

Mvy: Mahāvyutpatti (bye brag tu rtogs par byed pa chen po).

N: Narthang (snar thang) Kangyur and Tengyur.

NAK: National Archives Kathmandu.

NGMPP: Nepal German Manuscript Preservation Project.

PSP: Pañca­viṃśati­sāhasrikā Prajñā­pāramitā.

RecA: Skt and Tib editions of Recension A in Yuyama 1976.

RecAs: Sanskrit Recension A in Yuyama 1976.

RecAt: Tibetan Recension A in Yuyama 1976.

S: Stok Palace (stog pho brang bris ma) Kangyur.

Skt: Sanskrit.

Subodhinī: Attributed to Haribhadra. bcom ldan ’das yon tan rin po che sdud pa’i tshig su byas pa’i dka’ ’grel shes bya ba (Bhagavadratna­guṇa­saṃcaya­gāthā-pañjikānāma) [“Easy Pañjikā”].

Thempangma: bka’ ’gyur rgyal rtse’i them spang ma.

Tib: Tibetan.

Toh: Tōhoku Imperial University A Complete Catalogue of the Tibetan Buddhist Canons (bkaḥ-ḥgyur and bstan-ḥgyur).

Wogihara: Unrai Wogihara. Abhisamayālaṃkārālokā Prajñā­pāramitā Vyākhyā: The Work of Haribhadra.

Z: Zacchetti, Stefano. In Praise of the Light.

brgyad stong pa: shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa brgyad stong pa (Aṣṭa­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā) [Eight Thousand].

khri brgyad stong pa: shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa khri brgyad stong pa (Aṣṭā­daśa­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā) [The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines].

khri pa: shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa khri pa (Daśa­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā) [The Perfection of Wisdom in Ten Thousand Lines, Toh 11].

le’u brgyad ma: shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phrag nyi shu lnga pa (Pañca­viṃśati­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā) [Haribhadra’s “Eight Chapters”]. Citations are from the 1976–79 Karmapae chodhey gyalwae sungrab partun khang edition, first the Tib vol. letter, followed by the folio and line number.

nyi khri: shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phrag nyi shu lnga pa (Pañca­viṃśati­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā) [ The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines ].

rgyan snang: Haribhadra. shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa brgyad stong pa’i bshad pa mngon par rtogs pa’i rgyan gyi snang ba (Aṣṭa­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā-vyākhyānābhisamayālaṃkārālokā) [Illumination of the Abhisamayālaṃkāra].

ŚsPK: Śata­sāhasrikā­prajña­paramitā.

ŚsPN3: Śata­sāhasrikā­prajña­paramitā NGMPP A 115/3, NAK Accession Number 3/632. Numbering of the scanned pages.

ŚsPN4: Śata­sāhasrikā­prajña­paramitā NGMPP B 91/3, NAK Accession Number 3/633. Numbering of the scanned pages.

ŚsPN4/2: Śata­sāhasrikā­prajña­paramitā NGMPP B 91/3, NAK Accession Number 3/633 (part two). Numbering of the scanned pages.

’bum: shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phrag brgya pa (Śata­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā) [ The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines ]. Citations are from the 1976–79 Karmapae chodhey gyalwae sungrab partun khang edition, first the Tib letter in italics of the vol., followed by the folio and line number.