[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Sūtras of questions](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.paripriccha) › [Brahmaparipṛcchāsūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.paripriccha.brahmapariprcchasutra) › [འཕགས་པ་ཚངས་པས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.paripriccha.brahmapariprcchasutra*bo) › [Brahma’s Question](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.paripriccha.brahmapariprcchasutra*bo~en-84000) › notes.18 # འཕགས་པ་ཚངས་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.18 Brahmā’s Question notes.18 - **Language:** English ### [notes.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.paripriccha.brahmapariprcchasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.18) 18. The twofold liberation (Skt. ubhayato­bhāgavimuktaḥ, Tib. gnyis ka’i cha las rnam par grol ba) refers to being liberated through both wisdom (prajñā, shes rab) and meditative concentration (dhyāna, bsam gtan), whereas being liberated through wisdom alone lacks the perfection of dhyāna. See Buswell and Lopez 2014, p. 931. For references to further discussion, see Skilling 2021, p. 563 n. 825. - [Previous: notes.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.paripriccha.brahmapariprcchasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.17) - [Next: notes.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.paripriccha.brahmapariprcchasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.19) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.paripriccha.brahmapariprcchasutra*bo~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.paripriccha.brahmapariprcchasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.paripriccha.brahmapariprcchasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.18) · Pramāṇa