Manjushri (Sanskrit: 'Gentle Glory') is the bodhisattva who personifies prajna-paramita, wielding the khadga (flaming sword) of transcendent wisdom in his right hand to sever the bonds of avidya and moha, while his left hand holds the Prajnaparamita Sutra at his heart, indicating that wisdom is grounded in the direct realization of sunyata. The Manjusri-mulakalpa, one of the earliest Mahayana tantric texts, establishes his primordial status: Manjushri is said to have achieved samyaksambodhi in a past kalpa yet manifests as a bodhisattva to enact the cutting function of discriminating wisdom (pratyaveksana-jñana). In the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra, Manjushri alone among the Buddha's disciples is willing to visit the layman Vimalakirti, and their dialogue on advaya (non-duality) — culminating in Vimalakirti's thunderous silence — demonstrates that Manjushri's prajna operates not through accumulation of doctrine but through the direct, sword-like severance of all conceptual elaboration (prapañca).