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¹ Among the latter is probably *Barth*, who says (RHR, t. 5, 1882, p. 117 Oeuvres I, 326) that in our text the Prajñāpāramitā is glorified, "transcendental wisdom, which knows that things are neither existent nor non-existent, that there is no reality which is not also a non-reality, wisdom which has been proclaimed and will be proclaimed by an infinity of myriads of Arhats and Bodhisattvas who have been and have not been, who will be and will not be; who, thanks to their knowledge of Buddha, and their view of Buddha, are perceived, apperceived, known of Buddha, who himself is neither existent nor non-existent." On the doctrines of the Prajñāpāramitās, *cf.* *Burnouf*, Introduction, pp. 111, 390, 404 ff., 412 ff., 430; *W. Wassiljew*, Der Buddhismus, p. 157 ff. and *M. Anesaki*, ERE IV, p. 837f.