Prajñā (Buddhism)

Prajñā (Sanskrit) or paññā, is a Buddhist term often translated as "wisdom", "intelligence", or "understanding". It is described in Buddhist commentaries as the understanding of the true nature of phenomena. In the context of, it is the ability to understand the three characteristics of all things: anicca (impermanence), (dissatisfaction or anattā (non-self). Mahāyāna texts describe it as the understanding of  (Skt; Eng: emptiness). It is part of the  in Buddhism, and is one of the ten pāramīs of Theravada Buddhism and one of the six Mahāyāna pāramitās.

Quotes

 * Wisdom is purified by morality, and morality is purified by wisdom: where one is, the other is, the moral man has wisdom and the wise man has morality, and the combination of morality and wisdom is called the highest thing in the world.
 * Gautama Buddha, Digha Nikaya, M. Walshe, trans. (1987), Sutta 4 (Sonadanda Sutta), verse 22, p. 131


 * Because his preaching of the Law is pure, his wisdom is pure. Because his wisdom is pure, his mind is pure.
 * Gautama Buddha to Ratnākara, on the practices carried out by bodhisattvas in purifying the lands. Vimalakirti Sutra, Chapter I, as translated by, , 2000, ISBN: 0231106572.


 * The light of wisdom burns brightly in order to shed light on the vacuity of indulgence.
 * Brahmajāla Sūtra, as translated by A. Charles Muller and Kenneth K. Tanaka (2017), 998b