Prajñāpāramitā Devī is a female Buddha that symbolizes and embodies Prajñāpāramitā, the perfection of transcendent wisdom. This is the highest kind of wisdom in Mahayana and Vajrayana, which leads to
Prajñāpāramitā Devī in an illustrated Sanskrit Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra manuscript from Nalanda (Bihar, India), circa 700–1100 CE
Japanese mandala of Prajñāpāramitā bodhisattva (Jp: Hannya bosatsu), 14th century, MET.
Prajñāpāramitā, Cambodia, Bayon style, ca. 1200, Sandstone
Prajñāpāramitā, Tibet, 15th century, gilt bronze, Berkeley Art Museum
Prajñāpāramitā means "the Perfection of Wisdom" or "Transcendental Knowledge" in Mahāyāna Buddhism. Prajñāpāramitā refers to a perfected way of seeing the nature of reality, as well as to a particular
Prajñāpāramitā Devī
…ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་མ, abbr. ཤེར་ཕྱིན་མ, Wylie: shes rab kyi pa rol tu chin ma abbr. sher chin ma) is a female Buddha that symbolizes and embodies Prajñāpāramitā, the perfection of transcendent wisdom. This is the highest kind of wisdom in Mahayana and Vajrayana, which leads to Buddhahood and is the spontaneous…
A Tibetan painting with a Prajñāpāramitā sūtra at the center of the mandala
Prajñāpāramitā Devi, a personification of Transcendent Wisdom, Folio from a Tibetan 100,000 line Prajñāpāramitā manuscript
Tibetan Painting of Mañjuśrī bodhisattva with the sword of wisdom and a sūtra manuscript, which are common symbols of Prajñāpāramitā in Buddhist art
Prajñāpāramitā illustrated manuscript cover, circa 15th century