84000 Glossary of Terms

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རྒྱལ་བའི་ཡུམ། | Glossary of Terms

  • རྒྱལ་བའི་ཡུམ།

  • rgyal ba’i yum
  • jinajananī
  • Term
Publications: 2
  • Mother of Victors
  • རྒྱལ་བའི་ཡུམ།
  • rgyal ba’i yum
Definition in this text:

See “perfection of wisdom.”

  • Mother of Victors
  • རྒྱལ་བའི་ཡུམ།
  • rgyal ba’i yum
  • jinajananī
Definition in this text:

The Mother of Victors, the Perfection of Wisdom (prajñāpāramitā), is variously (1) the ultimate truth, the knowledge of the ultimate truth, or a nondual knowledge of the ultimate truth; (2) a complex of the three knowledges of buddhas, bodhisattvas, and śrāvakas; (3) the knowledge-path that leads to (1) and (2); (4) books with any or all of (1) (2) and (3) as subject matter; and (5) the iconographic representation of all those. See also “perfection of wisdom.”