Body of sutra s and their commentaries in Mahayana Buddhism.
The main texts, written 100 BCE–150 CE, represent prajna (wisdom) as the supreme perfection and the primary avenue to nirvana . The content of this wisdom is the realization that all phenomena are illusory. The name Prajnaparamita also refers to the personification of the literature or of wisdom, often depicted as a woman with her hands in the teaching gesture or holding a lotus and sacred book.
Prajnaparamita, 13th-century stone sculpture from Singosari, East Java; in the Museum Pusat, ...
By courtesy of the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, Neth.