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单词 prajnaparamita
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prajnaparamitan.

Brit. /ˌpradʒnəˈpɑːrəmɪtə/, /ˌprʌdʒnəˈpɑːrəmɪtə/, U.S. /ˌprədʒnəˈpɑrəmɪdə/
Forms: 1800s prajna parmita, 1800s– prajna paramita, 1800s– prajna-paramita, 1800s– prajnaparamita. Also with capital initial(s).
Origin: A borrowing from Sanskrit. Etymon: Sanskrit prajñā-pāramitā.
Etymology: < Sanskrit prajñā-pāramitā perfection of understanding (in Mahayana Buddhism, the ultimate perfection of six), alteration of Pali paññā-pāramī the fourth of ten such perfections ( < paññā (see prajna n.) + pāramī supreme) + Sanskrit -tā , suffix forming abstract nouns. Compare prajna n.With the second element compare the following:1986 C. Meadows Ārya-Śūra's Compend. Perfections p. i A Sanskrit text in verse dealing with the set of six Mahanaya perfections (pāramitās).
Buddhism.
(The name of) a group of ancient Mahayana Buddhist texts on the perfection of wisdom (frequently attributive); one of the teachings contained within them. Also occasionally: one of these texts. Cf. prajna n.
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1828 Asiatic Researches 16 423 Of the existing Bauddha writings of Nepal, by far the most important of the speculative kind, are the five Khands of the Racha Bhagavati..and the five Parmitas together with the Prajná Parmita.
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 227/1 The new literature..was written..in Sanskrit,—its principal books..[including] Prajñā-pāramitā.
1956 J. Kerouac Let. 16 Jan. in Sel. Lett. 1940–56 (1995) 543 I'm sending Ginsberg..a prayer that is serving to introduce him to the preliminary prajnas of the hridaya prajna paramita.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia III. 381/2 The Prajñāpāramitā..[and other texts] for instance, are said to have been concealed by the nāgas, demigods living at the bottom of lakes and rivers... There are various Prajñāpāramitā (‘Perfection of Wisdom’) texts.
2001 V. A. Wallace Inner Kãlacakratantra vii. 149 The Kālacakra tradition's interpretation of gnosis has an earlier precedent in the Mahāyāna's interpretation of the perfection of wisdom—specifically, in the literature of the Prajñāpāramitā corpus.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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