The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (277 page)

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Early (
c.
100 BCE)
perfection
of wisdom
s
tra
, ‘The S
tra of Perfect Wisdom in 8,000 Lines’. It elevates the
bodhisattvas
as the practitioners of the six perfections (
p
ramit
), and therefore points the way to the practice of jh
na (meditation).
A
vakra
.
The teacher of
Patañjali
.
A
a-vimok
a

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