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Texts & Titles:
- Buddhacarita
- Abhidharmakosakarika
- Bodhisattvavadanakalpata
- Gandavyuha Sutra
- Jatakamala
- Karandavyuha Sutra (Om mani padme hum)
- The Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom (arapachana)
- Mahavairochana Sutra
- Medicine Buddha Sutra
- Prajnaparamita in a Single Letter Sutra
- The Sutra of Golden Light
- Sukhavativyuha Sutra
- Thirty-five Confession Buddhas Sutra (Triskhandhadharmasutra)
- Others...

The [Sutra of the] Blessed Perfection of Wisdom,
The Mother of All the Tathagatas, In One Letter

Homage to the Perfection of Wisdom!
Thus have I heard at one time. The Lord dwelt at Rajagrha, on the Vulture Peak, together with a large congregation of monks, with 1,250 monks, and with many hundreds of thousands of niyutas of kotis of Bodhisattvas. At that time the Lord addressed the Venerable Ananda, and said:

"Ananda, do receive, for the sake of the weal and happiness of all beings, this perfection of wisdom in one letter, A."

Thus spoke the Lord. The Venerable Ananda, the large congregation of monks, the assembly of the bodhisattvas, and the whole world with its gods, men, asuras and gandharvas rejoiced at the teaching of the Lord.

(The Short Prajnaparamita Texts. Prajnaparamita in a Single Letter. Translated by Edward Conze. Luzac & Company Ltd., 46 Great Russell Street, London, 1973).

Links:
- Prajnaparamita in a Single Letter (Sutra) Page
- 'A' Letter (Buddhist)
- 'A' Letter (Bon)

Prajnaparamita Sutra
The Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom

I, 9, 15. The Equipment with the Dharanis

And again, Subhuti, the Dharani-doors are the great vehicle of the Bodhisattvas, the great being. Which are they? The sameness of all letters and syllables, the sameness of all spoken words, the syllable-doors, the syllable-entrances. What then are the syllable-doors, the syllable-entrances?

1. [A]: The syllable A is a door to the insight that all dharmas are unproduced from the very beginning (ady-anutpannatvad);
2. RA is a door to the insight that all dharmas are without dirt (rajas);
3. PA is a door to the insight that all dharmas have been expounded in the ultimate sense (paramrtha);
4. CA is a door to the insight that the decease (cyavana) or rebirth of any dharma cannot be apprehended, because all dharmas do not decease, nor are they reborn;
5. NA is a door to the insight that the Names of all dharmas have vanished; the essential nature behind names cannot be gained or lost.

(The Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom. Translated by Edward Conze. Luzac & Company, London: 1961. Page 148. University of California: 1975, 1984. Page 160).

Links:
- Arapachana Manjushri
- Arapachana: Explanation of Form

Jeff Watt 8-2016