Pāramitāsamāsa

The Summary of the Perfections (Pāramitāsamāsa) is a lesser-known work on the six perfections by an Indian Buddhist Mahayana author. In some ways, it is similar to other Mahayana works such as Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland and Shantideva’s Entering the Bodhi Way. This poem explains the six perfections from the śūnyavāda (“view of emptiness”) or madhyamaka school.

The one English translation of this text is out of print, so I decided to make my own version using other sources.