Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c9.s5.8
Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c9.s5.8
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c9.s5.8
(vi) Yat kāye chidyamāne kāyasya tṛṇakāṣṭhakuḍyavat pratibhāsopamatāṃ pratyavekṣate māyādharmatāṃ ca kāyasyāvatarati, bhūtānityatāṃ bhūtaduḥkhatāṃ ca bhūtānātmatāṃ ca kāyasyopanidhyāyati, iyam asya prajñāpāramitā (It is his perfection in wisdom that when his body is dismembered he regards it as grass, wood, or wall, or as an image or illusion, and thinks of its real transitoriness, unhappiness, essencelessness and unruffledness)¹.