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Glenn Wallis states: "By distilling the complex models, theories, rhetorical style and sheer volume of the Buddha's teachings into concise, crystalline verses, the Dhammapada makes the Buddhist way of life available to anyone...In fact, it is possible that the very source of the Dhammapada in the third century B.C.E. is traceable to the need of ...
In some schools of Nichiren Buddhism practitioners believe the calligraphic scroll Gohonzon is Nichiren's representation of the ten realms and chanting Nam Myōhō Renge Kyō to it activates the Buddha's attributes of wisdom, courage, and compassion.
Conze's 1973 The Large Sutra of Perfect Wisdom is a composite translation which mostly contains material from the 25,000 line sutra and the 18,000 line sutra (as well as passages from the 8,000 and 100,000 line versions) arranged based on the divisions found in the Abhisamayālaṅkāra. As such, this version is a scholarly construct by Conze.
Cundā, also a wisdom deity, is often called "mother of the seventy million Buddhas" (saptakoṭibuddhamatṛ) and as such shares the "mother of Buddhas" moniker with Prajñāpāramitā Devi. Her artistic depictions are often indistinguishable from Prajñāpāramitā Devi, and scholars like Kinnard argue that this ambiguity may have been ...
Mañjuśrī teaches on the four noble truths and the Buddha sends a light from his feet that illuminates the ten directions (symbolizing the all-pervading quality of the Buddha's wisdom). [37] Mañjuśrī then gives further teachings on bodhisattvas, and on pure conduct. [ 38 ]
The Kesamutti Sutta, popularly known in the West as the Kālāma Sutta, is a discourse of the Buddha contained in the Aṅguttara Nikaya (3.65) of the Tipiṭaka. [1] It is often cited by those of the Theravada and Mahayana traditions alike as the Buddha's "charter of free inquiry." [2]
Wisdom/Discernment (paññā bala) In the Abbidhamma-tradition, the five strengths are regarded as antidotes to ill will ( vyapada ), sloth and torpor ( styana-middha ), heedlessness ( apramada ) or sensual desire ( kamacchanda ), distraction or restlessness and worry ( auddhatya-kaukrtya ), and skeptical doubt ( vicikitsa ).
The New Heart of Wisdom: Profound Teachings from Buddha's Heart (Tharpa Publications 5th. ed., 2012 ISBN 978-1906665043) is a commentary to Buddha Shakyamuni's Heart Sutra by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. The Heart Sutra is a well-known Mahāyāna Buddhist Sutra that is very popular among Mahayana Buddhists both for its brevity and depth of meaning.