How much of an argument is really about the issue, and how much is about defending “me” and “mine”? This #RealBuddhaQuotes reflection turns the question inward, inviting us to notice what we are holding onto when disagreement arises.

TRUTH. For His Holiness the 43rd Sakya Trizin, Gyana Vajra Rinpoche, the #OneWord he chooses for The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines is truth. “This is the ultimate truth.”

Awe. For Elizabeth Mattis Namgyal, teacher, author, and founder of The Middle Way Initiative, the #OneWord she would choose for The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines is awe. 84000.co/translation/...

#RealBuddhaQuotes Some people do more than walk beside us—they help us remember who we want to be. Tag a friend who keeps you grounded, encourages you to grow, and shares the values that matter most.

Honesty. Few people have encountered The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines as closely as Dr. Gareth Sparham, who translated the complete text into English. After years spent within its pages, the word he offers is honesty.

How well do you know The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines? Marisa poses our first question. Share your answer in the comments, and we’ll reveal the correct answer there.

Sometimes what we need from the canon is not only an ideal to admire, but a story that makes room for our own ordinary struggles. In Virtue, Mischief, and Everything Between, 84000 research editor Dr. Annie Heckman writes about finding “her people” in the Buddhist canon

#RealBuddhaQuotes What frightens or weighs upon us can feel entirely real. But what happens when we pause, look more closely, and examine its essential nature? 💗 May this be a gentle reminder to meet what troubles us with curiosity rather than fear.

Beyond. “She is the wisdom beyond.” In the first of our longer #OneWord reflections, Avikrita Rinpoche speaks about The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines and the path of hearing, study, contemplation, and meditation.

What holds Buddhist communities together? For the Karma Kagyü and Drikung Kagyü, part of the answer lay in a set of Indian texts that arrived in Tibet in the mid-11th century.

#RealBuddhaQuotes Let’s pause for a second and appreciate the ones who show us the Dharma.

#ReelWisdom What if every practice—from patience and generosity to mantra recitation—was really teaching us how to loosen our grip? Watch Phakchok Rinpoche’s teaching on The Prajñāpāramitā in Eight Thousand Lines from Samye Institute. 84000.co/post/teachin...

#RealBuddhaQuotes While we still have the chance, let’s make it count and turn toward what truly matters.

How do you describe one of the world's largest spiritual texts in just one word? Freedom. Wisdom. Truth. Awe. Beyond. To mark the publication of The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines—the longest sūtra in the Tibetan Buddhist canon—

What happens when we encounter a passage in the canon that troubles us? In the first installment of our new Ask the Translator series, 84000 research editor Dr. Annie Heckman responds to a reader’s question about gender language in The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light. 84000.co/post/ask-the...

84000 copyeditor Ven. Konchog Norbu takes us behind the scenes of the editorial work that brings a sūtra to publication—the readings, revisions, and recitations that shaped our recently published English translation of the Prajñāpāramitā in Eight Thousand Lines. 84000.co/post/after-t...

#RealBuddhaQuotes May we always remember to make such vast aspirations sincerely, and may they gradually shape the way we live, speak, and act.

#ReelWisdom Even the things that help us can become another form of attachment when we stop seeing them clearly. Watch Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche’s full teaching, Outwitting Distractions, on our YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz8X...

We’ve all come across “form is emptiness, emptiness is form.” But in the long Perfection of Wisdom sūtras, this pattern unfolds through form, feelings, perception, consciousness, the senses, sensory contact, and more. Have you ever wondered why the sūtras repeat this vast list again and again?

#RealBuddhaQuotes May the lion’s roar of emptiness gently loosen what we cling to. 🦁

What if the greatest obstacle on the path is also the most powerful tool we have? #RealBuddhaQuotes with Jetsunma Kunga Trinley Palter👇🏻

#RealBuddhaQuotes Homage to the wisdom of the Buddha, who sees clearly and directly.

What if we don’t need to understand every word of a sūtra to benefit from it? In this reel, 84000 senior editor Dr. John Canti invites us to consider how hearing, reciting, and honoring the Buddha’s words can open a way into a sūtra as profound as the Perfection of Wisdom.

This #RealBuddhaQuotes is spoken to King Śuddhodana, the Buddha’s father. On #FathersDay, it offers a moving image: the Buddha, once his father’s son, is now described as one who cares for all beings “like a loving father” — with compassion, patience, and the wish to liberate.

In Memoriam: Robert Thurman We are saddened to learn of the passing of Robert A. F. Thurman, a pioneering scholar, translator, teacher, and lifelong advocate for the study and transmission of Tibetan Buddhism.

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche’s birthday is here! 🎂 As the World Cup brings people together on the pitch, we’ve also been reflecting on how the Dharma shows up in everyday life — even in football.

#RealBuddhaQuotes There are times when practice asks us to step away from company and noise. Not to reject the world, but to meet the mind more honestly — so that when we return, we return with more clarity and care. What does solitude help you see?

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#RealBuddhaQuotes The mind is not always easy to see clearly. Yet so much depends on how we meet it— what we notice, what we follow, what we leave unexamined.

Carved into rocks, printed on prayer flags, and turned in prayer wheels across the Himalayas — Om Mani Padme Hum is one of the most familiar mantras in Tibetan Buddhism. But the sūtra that first introduced this mantra remains far less known.