Abhisamaya-alamkara

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Abhisamaya-alamkāra ("The Ornament of Direct Realization") is a Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy text attributed to Maitreya-nātha. In nine chapters with a total of 273 verses, it summarizes the topics covered by the Pañca-vimśati-Prajñā-Pāramitā Sūtra while arranging them in an ordered sequence corresponding to the Mahāyāna Path. Though highly influential in later Mahāyāna in India and Tibet, the text seems to have been unknown in China before the modern period.

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• Prajñā-Pāramitā Sūtras