An Outline of the Religious Literature of India c8.s2.t2.22

c8.s2.t2.22

§ 126. The philosophic doctrine of Vacuity was taught in a large number of books, short and long, called the Prajñāpāramitā-sūtras,² i.e. ‘the sūtras of the wisdom-perfections’ of the Buddhas. Of these the *Daśasāhasrika Prajñāpāramitā-sūtra*,³ i.e. the ‘Ten-thousand-line Sūtra’, belongs to our period. This work also describes the ten stages (*bhūmis*) of the Bodhisattva career. The chapter called *Daśabhūmika*⁴ interpolated into the *Mahāvastu* probably comes from this time also.