大般若波羅蜜多経 巻十七 (Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra Vol. 17 — Historic Manuscript)

A portion of a hand-transcribed Buddhist manuscript scroll, likely from the Dunhuang archives. The paper is aged to a dark buff/yellow tone. The text is executed in precise, professional standard script (kaishu) in black ink. The fragment shows twenty-nine vertical columns of text, adhering to the traditional format of 17 characters per column. Small interlinear punctuation dots are visible in some areas, likely added by a later reader. The top edge is straight, while the bottom edge is raggedly torn.

...No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for the non-self of feeling, perception, formation, or consciousness? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for the purity of form? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for the purity of feeling, perception, formation, or consciousness? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for the impurity of form? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for the impurity of feeling, perception, formation, or consciousness? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for the emptiness of form? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for the emptiness of feeling, perception, formation, or consciousness? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for the non-emptiness of form? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for the non-emptiness of feeling, perception, formation, or consciousness? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for the having-characteristics of form? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for the having-characteristics of feeling, perception, formation, or consciousness? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for the non-characteristics of form? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for the non-characteristics of feeling, perception, formation, or consciousness? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for having-aspiration regarding form? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for having-aspiration regarding feeling, perception, formation, or consciousness? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for non-aspiration regarding form? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for non-aspiration regarding feeling, perception, formation, or consciousness? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for the tranquility of form? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for the tranquility of feeling, perception, formation, or consciousness? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for the detachment of form? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for the detachment of feeling, perception, formation, or consciousness? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for non-detachment of form? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for non-detachment of feeling, perception, formation, or consciousness? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for conditioned form? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for conditioned feeling, perception, formation, or consciousness? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for unconditioned form? No, World-Honored One. Is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva a designation for unconditioned feeling, perception, formation, or consciousness? No...