Editing Prajnaparamita (section)

===Later developments===
According to [[Edward Conze]], later Prajñāpāramitā sutras added much new doctrinal material. Conze lists the later accretions as:<ref name="huntingtonarchive.org">Conze, Edward, THE PERFECTION OF WISDOM IN EIGHT THOUSAND LINES & ITS VERSE SUMMARY, http://huntingtonarchive.org/resources/downloads/sutras/02Prajnaparamita/Astasahasrika.pdf</ref>

#Increasing sectarianism, with all the rancor, invective and polemics that that implies
#Increasing scholasticism and the insertion of longer and longer Abhidharma lists
#Growing stress on skill in means, and on its subsidiaries such as the Bodhisattva's Vow and the four means of conversion, and its logical sequences, such as the distinction between provisional and ultimate truth
#A growing concern with the Buddhist of faith, with its celestial Buddhas and Bodhisattva and their Buddha-fields;
#A tendency towards verbosity, repetitiveness and overelaboration
#Lamentations over the decline of the Dharma
#Expositions of the hidden meaning which become the more frequent the more the original meaning becomes obscured
#Any reference to the Dharma body of the Buddha as anything different from a term for the collection of his teachings
#A more and more detailed doctrine of the graded stages ([[Bhūmi (Buddhism)|bhūmi]]) of a Bodhisattva's career.