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A major Mahayana sutra on the Perfection of Wisdom just came out from the 84000 translation project!

https://read.84000.co/translation/toh10.html

A difficult sutra for most folks, so here is a little from Sparham's introductory matter:

Modern readers unfamiliar with the sacred tradition set forth in the
fundamental texts can read, for example, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi’s In the
Buddha’s Words. Alternatively, the fundamental texts can be learned from the
Eighteen Thousand, which presents them in a very clear and accessible
manner. But a modern reader unfamiliar with the dharmas set forth in the
fundamental texts can get confused, because at the same time that the
Eighteen Thousand is setting them forth with veneration, it is exhorting the
reader to reject them as an object of attachment.

Thus, chapter 3 of the Eighteen Thousand begins with the monk Śāriputra
asking, “How then should bodhisattva great beings practice the perfection
of wisdom?” to which the Lord responds, “They do not see form. Similarly,
they do not see feeling, perception, volitional factors, or consciousness
either.” “They do not see” means that they reject it as an object of
attachment. It does not mean that the aggregates, and so on, are not there or
are not something they should know. Worthy ones obviously know the
aggregates and so on, because it is the basic teaching of the truth of
suffering, the first words the Buddha Śākyamuni uttered to the five
companions when he returned to the Deer Park outside Vārāṇasī after
reaching awakening.