The Perfection of Wisdom: In 8000 Lines

The Perfection of Wisdom: In Eight Thousand Lines & Its Verse Summary

After the Torah, the Koran and the Gospels, the Indian literature of "The Perfection of Wisdom" has had the greatest impact on the religious consciousness of mankind. Its composition extended for over seven hundred years, and here we offer the reader the first two works which were composed in South India between 100 B.C. and A.D. 100.

These documents are not only indispensable to those who wish to understand the mentality of the East, they still carry a potent spiritual message; and those who desire to diminish their personal worries by the disciplined contemplation of spiritual truths could make no better choice.

Translator: Edward Conze

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Publisher: City Lights Books

Edition Print: 2006

Pages: 329