According to Mahāyāna teachings, being a high-level bodhisattva involves possessing a mind of great compassion and transcendent wisdom (Skt.
Buddhabhadra and his Chinese disciple Xuangao are known to have advocated the twin principles of samadhi (meditative concentration) and prajna (transcendent wisdom).
But this time, as if stepping out of "The Magic Flute" as Sarastro, he came bearing words of transcendent wisdom.
Like the Renaissance thinker Pico della Mirandola, her interests in other religions were universal and she attempted to understand each religious tradition as expressive of transcendent wisdom.
She is "the agent of transcendent wisdom".
A Buddhist as well as a heartthrob, he writes lyrics that try to blend romanticism and transcendent wisdom.
Her body itself represents the sixth perfection, transcendent wisdom (prajna), which all female deities implicitly personify.
The philosophy apparent in these texts combines a more semitic emphasis on practical wisdom with a Hellenic/Platonic concept of transcendent wisdom.
According to the Mahāyāna teachings, these perfections are: giving, discipline, forbearance, effort, meditation, and transcendent wisdom.
Mañjuśrī is depicted as a male bodhisattva wielding a flaming sword in his right hand, representing the realization of transcendent wisdom which cuts down ignorance and duality.