Prajñā Press

Prajñā Press

Prajña Press, based in Boulder, Colorado, was a publishing company active in the late 70s and early 80s that specialized in books related to Buddhist studies, Tibetan culture, and other related subjects.

Prajña Press published works on Buddhist studies, including translations and commentaries on Buddhist texts. Some of their titles include The Cultural Heritage of Ladakh (Snellgrove and Skorupski 1977), Glimpses of Abhidharma (Trungpa 1978), The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra (Suzuki 1978), Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way (Sprung 1979), The History of the Sixteen Karmapas of Tibet (Thinley 1980) Journey Without Goal: The Tantric History of Tibet (Trungpa 1981), and Himalayan Pilgrimage (Snellgrove 1981.)

The press was focused on disseminating knowledge on Buddhism, particularly Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhism, as well as cultural and historical aspects of Tibet.

Prajñā - One of the key terms for wisdom or knowledge, most often having the sense of insight, transcendent knowledge, or perhaps gnosis. In some contexts it can also refer to cognition or intellectual understanding. Skt प्रज्ञा  Tib ཤེས་རབ་  Ch 般若  

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Abhidharma - Abhidharma generally refers to the corpus of Buddhist texts which deals with the typological, phenomenological, metaphysical, and epistemological presentation of Buddhist concepts and teachings. The Abhidharma teachings present a metaknowledge of Buddhist sūtras through analytical and systemic schemas and are said to focus on developing wisdom among the three principles of training. The Abhidharma is presented alongside Sūtra and Vinaya as one of the three baskets of the teachings of the Buddha. Skt अभिधर्म  Tib ཆོས་མངོན་པ།  Ch 阿毗达磨  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Skt मध्यमक  Tib དབུ་མ་  Ch 中觀見  

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