Praja

The Seba library treats Praja in 7 passages, across 6 authors (including Govinda, Lama Anagarika, Zimmer, Heinrich, Campbell, Joseph).

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He is one with the Wisdom of Discriminating Clear Vision, his 'Praja', who embraces him in the form of the Divine Mother Pandaravasini (Tib.: gos-dkar-mo), the 'White-robed'.

Govinda identifies Praja as the feminine Wisdom-consort of Amitabha, equating her with pratyaveksana-jnana—a pure, self-luminous, intuitive vision that transcends conceptual discrimination.

Govinda, Lama Anagarika, Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism, 1960thesis

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Prajñā-Pāramitā the female aspect of the Universal Buddha. As the active energy (śakti) of the supreme wisdom that guides and enlightens, she is not only the consort of the Ādi-Buddha but the animating virtue of all redeemers.

Zimmer frames Prajna-Paramita as the universal feminine shakti of enlightenment, the sole animating reality behind all Buddhist salvific figures, directly analogous to Lakshmi in Hinduism.

Zimmer, Heinrich, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization, 1946thesis

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Prajnaparamita, her Buddhist counterpart, represents the fulfillment and bliss of the transcendental sphere, which is attained by shattering the passion-ridden ignorance of our limited, individualized modes of existence.

Campbell presents Prajnaparamita as the Buddhist Sophia—the supreme maternal principle whose wisdom dissolves individuation and liberates consciousness from the cycle of rebirth.

Campbell, Joseph, The Mythic Image, 1974thesis

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Pra-japati created the cosmos from his own substance; and once he had given it forth, 'he feared death' (X, 4, 2, 2) and the gods brought him offerings to restore and revive him.

Eliade situates Prajapati as the self-sacrificing Vedic cosmogonic principle whose repeated dismemberment and restoration through sacrifice constitutes the regeneration of cosmic time.

Eliade, Mircea, The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History, 1954supporting

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KNOWLEDGE AND POWER: PRAJNA VERSUS SAKTI profound, HE influence of Tantric Buddhism upon Hinduism Was so that up to the present day the majority of Western Buddhist Schools.

Govinda frames the central tension of Tantric epistemology as a dialectic between Prajna (wisdom, Buddhist) and Shakti (power, Hindu), two principles whose confluence shaped both traditions.

Govinda, Lama Anagarika, Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism, 1960supporting

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above this the abode of the prajāpatis, the progenitors. The threefold realm of Brahmā, the secondary creator—Janaloka, Tapoloka, and Satyaloka—is above these.

Bryant's cosmographic commentary locates the Prajapatis as a category of celestial progenitors inhabiting a specific realm in the Puranic universe, situating 'Praja' in its cosmological rather than wisdom register.

Bryant, Edwin F., The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary, 2009aside

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prājña 171–173

Singh's index records 'prajna' as a technical term indexed across specific pages in the Vijnana Bhairava, indicating its functional presence within the Kashmir Shaiva meditative vocabulary without elaborating its significance.

Singh, Jaideva, Vijnana Bhairava: The Manual for Self-Realization, 1979aside

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