Toh 19
The Noble Perfection of Wisdom “Kauśika”
འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ།
āryakauśikaprajñāpāramitā
佛說帝釋般若波羅蜜多心經
’phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa kau shi ka zhes bya ba
Translator: Translated by the UCSB Buddhist Studies Translation Group under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
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The KangyurDiscoursesPerfection of Wisdom
Summary
The Perfection of Wisdom “Kauśika” is a condensed prajñāpāramitā sūtra in which the Buddha summarizes the various meanings of the perfection of wisdom. In particular, the Buddha equates the characteristics of the perfection of wisdom with the characteristics of all phenomena, the five aggregates, the five elements, and the ten perfections. In this way, the sūtra places particular emphasis on the nonduality of conventional phenomena and emptiness.