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Buddhist Wisdom Books Containing the Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra
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- A Revised Edition of the Laṅkāvatāra-Sūtra, Kṣaṇika-Parivarta
- A Revised Edition of the Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra, "Kṣaṇika-parivarta" (in Collected Papers)
- Akṣayamatinirdeśasūtra, Vol. 1 (Braarvig, J.)
- Akṣayamatinirdeśasūtra, Vol. 2 (Braarvig, J.)
- Amida Dhāraṇī Sūtra and Jñānagarbha's Commentary
- Ashṭasāhasrikā: A Collection of Discourses on the Metaphysics of the Mahāyāna School of the Buddhists
- Aṣṭa-sāhasrikā prajñāparamitā: A Sanskrit Manuscript from Nepal
- Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā, with Haribhadra's Commentary called Ālokā
- Bhaisajya-guru-sutra: Original Sanskrit Text with Introduction and Commentary
- Bhaiṣajyaguruvaidūryaprabharājasūtram (Dutt, N.)
- Bhaiṣajyaguruvaidūryaprabharājasūtram (Vaidya, P. L.)
- Bhaiṣajyaguruvaiḍūryaprabharājasūtra (Vira and Chandra)
- Bodhisatvapiṭaka (Bibliotheca Polyglotta)
- Bouddhisme: Notes et Bibliographie
- Buddhist Wisdom Books Containing the Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra (1972)
- Catalogue of Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Possession of the Royal Asiatic Society (Hodgson Collection)
- Caturdharmikasūtra (Tseng, V.)
- Cuṇḍīdevīdhāraṇī (Zieme, P.)
- Das Gilgit-Fragment Or. 11878A im Britischen Museum zu London
- Daśabhūmikasūtra (Rahder, J.)
- Daśabhūmikasūtra et Bodhisattvabhūmi
- Daśabhūmikasūtram
- Daśabhūmīśvaro nāma Mahāyānasūtraṃ
- Dharma-Samuccaya: Compendium de la Loi, Vol. 1
- Dharma-Samuccaya: Compendium de la Loi, Vol. 2
- Dharma-Samuccaya: Compendium de la Loi, Vol. 3
- Die Bhadracari, eine probe buddhistisch-religiöser lyrik
- Die Überlieferung vom Lebensende des Buddha, Part 1
- Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra (Vaidya, P. L.)
- Gilgit Manuscripts, Vol. 2 (Part 1)
- Gilgit Manuscripts, Vol. 2 (Part 2)
- Gilgit Manuscripts, Vol. 2 (Part 3)
- Lalita Vistara: Leben und Lehre des Çâkya-Buddha, Erster Teil: Text
- Lalita-Vistara (Vaidya, P. L.)
- Lankavatara-Sutra (Das, Sarat Chandra)
- Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra: Sanskrit Manuscript from Nepal
- Mahā-megha-sūtra
- Mārīcīdhāraṇī (Zieme, P.)
- Narayanapariprccha: Sanskrit and Tibetan Texts
- Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā (Vaidya, P. L.)
- Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā: Sūtra du Mahāyāna (1901)
- Saddharma-Puṇḍarīka-Sūtra: Kashgar Manuscript
- Saddharmalankavatarasutram (Vaidya, P. L.)
- Saddharmapuṇḍarīka (1908)
- Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-sūtram (Wogihara and Tsuchida)
- Saddharmapuṇḍarīkanāmamahāyānasūtram (Kawaguchi and Ikeda)
- Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra (Vaidya, P. L.)
- Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtram (Dutt, N.)
- Samantabhadracaryā-praṇidhānarāja (Devi)
- Samādhirāja-Sūtram (Das, Sarat)
- Samādhirājasūtra (Vaidya, P. L.)
- Samādhirājasūtra (Vira and Chandra)
- Sarvadharmāpravṛttinirdeśa (Braarvig, J.)
- Saṃgharakshita (Cowell and Neil)
- Saṃgharakṣitāvadāna (Bibliotheca Polyglotta)
- Saṃgharakṣitāvadānam (Vaidya, P. L.)
- Siṃhaparipṛcchāsūtra (Tseng, V.)
- Studies in the Divyāvadāna: I. Sūkarikāvadāna
- Studies in the Literature of the Great Vehicle
- Suvarna Prabhā
- Suvarṇaprabhāsasūtram (Bagchi, S.)
- Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra: Das Goldglanz-Sūtra (Nobel 1937)
- Sūkarikāvadāna (Cowell and Neil)
- Sūkarikāvadānam (Vaidya, P. L.)
- Sūtra of Aṅgulimālika
- The Acceptance of Evil Acts in the Śīla-paṭala of the Yogācārabhūmi
- The Bhaiṣajyaguru-Sūtra and the Buddhism of Gilgit
- The Final Leaves of the Pravrajyāvastu Portion of the Vinayavastu Manuscript Found Near Gilgit: Part 1 Saṃgharakṣitāvadāna
- The Gandavyuha Sutra (1949)
- The Gilgit Text of the Vajracchedikā
- The Gāthās of the Daśabhūmika-Sūtra (1–5)
- The Gāthās of the Daśabhūmika-Sūtra (6–10)
- The Hymn of the Life and Vows of Samantabhadra
- The Khotanese Bhadracaryādeśanā
- The Khotanese Śūraṅgamasamādhisūtra
- The Lalita-Vistara, or Memoirs of the Early Life of Śákya Siñha (Sanskrit)
- The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra (Bunyu)
- The Laṅkāvatāra-ratna-sūtram: Sarva-buddha-pravacana-hṛdayam
- The Manuscript of the Vajracchedikā Found at Gilgit
- The Perfection of Wisdom (Schopen)
- The Ratnarāśisūtra Quoted in the Śikṣāsamuccaya
- The Saddharma Laṅkāvatārasūtra (Vaipulya Sūtra)
- The Samādhi Lists of the Akṣayamatinirdeśasūtra and the Mahāvyutpatti
- The Story of Saṅgharakṣita (Stories 23–25)
- The Suvarṇaprabhāsa Sūtra (Nanjio and Idzumi)
- The Suvarṇaprabhāsa Sūtra: A Mahayana Text called "The Golden Splendour"
- The Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra
- The Śālistamba Sūtra
- Two Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Daśabhūmikasūtra
- Unique Sanskrit Fragments of the "Sūtra of the Golden Light" in the Manuscript Collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences)
- Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā (Conze)
- Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā (Dutt)
- Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā (Sanskrit)
- Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitāsūtra (Joshi, L.)
- Vajracchedikā in the Original Sanskrit
- Vajracchedikā nāma Triśatikā Prajñāpāramitā
- Vimalakīrtinirdeśa: A Sanskrit Edition Based upon the Manuscript Newly Found at the Potala Palace
- Vimalakīrtinirdeśa: Transliterated Sanskrit Text Collated with Tibetan and Chinese Translations
- Vimalakīrtinirdeśasūtra (Joshi and Prāsādika)
- Vinayaviniścaya Upāliparipṛcchā (Dutt, N.)
- Çatasāhasrikā-Prajñā-Pāramitā: A Theological and Philosophical Discourse of Buddha with His Disciples (in a Hundred-Thousand Stanzas), Vol. 1
- Çatasāhasrikā-Prajñā-Pāramitā: A Theological and Philosophical Discourse of Buddha with His Disciples (in a Hundred-Thousand Stanzas), Vol. 2
- Ārya Śrīaṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitāsūtram (Vajrācārya, H.)
- Ārya Śālistamba Sūtra (Sastri, N.)
- Āryaśrīdaśabhūmikasūtram (Herākājī Vajrācārya)
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Description
A landmark publication which offers Western readers a unique combination of what Buddhists worldwide consider the holiest of holy texts The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra, two sutras, or scriptures, ascribed to the early centuries of the first millennium.
The Diamond Sutra, or the Perfection of Wisdom, which cuts like a thunderbolt, is one of the cornerstone texts of Mahayana Buddhism and provides a summary of the core concepts of the Buddha. The Heart Sutra, perhaps the most important of all Buddhist texts, sets out to formulate the very heart, or essence of perfect wisdom and is studied with special reverence in Zen monasteries and the Tibetan Buddhist lamaseries.
Edward Conze, who was until his death in 1979 a powerful force for introducing Buddhism and its sacred texts to the West, has provided these translated key texts with an extensive commentary for the easiest possible appreciation phrase by phrase. (Source Accessed Aug 16, 2021)
Citation
Conze, Edward, trans. Buddhist Wisdom Books Containing the Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra. New York: Harper & Row, 1972. https://terebess.hu/english/diamond.pdf.
Table of contents
- PREFACEpage 9
- THE DIAMOND SUTRA
- Introductory Note17
- Translation and Commentary21
- 1. Introduction21
- a. The Convocation of the Assembly (1)
- b. Subhuti makes a request (2)
- 2. The Bodhisattva's Career24
- a. The Vow of a Bodhisattva (3)
- b. The Practice of the Perfections (4)
- c. Buddhahood and the thirty-two Marks (5)
- d. Buddhahood and the Dharmabody
- da. The Dharmabody as the body of teachings (6)
- db. The Dharmabody as the result of Gnosis (7)
- dc. The Dharmabody as the result of Merit (8)
- 3. The range of the spiritual life42
- a. The four Great Saints (9)
- b. The Bodhisattva's thought of enlightenment (10a)
- c. The Bodhisattva and his Pure Land (106)
- d. The Bodhisattva's final Nirvana (10c)
- e. The merit derived from Perfect Wisdom (n, 12)
- 4. The first ending (13a) 51
- 5. Transcendentality52
- a. The dialectical nature of reality (13a-d)
- b. The supreme excellence of this teaching (13e-14d)
- c. Selfless patience and perfect inner freedom (14e)
- d. The existence and non-existence of beings (14f)
- e. Truth and falsehood (14g)
- f. The merit acquired, its presuppositions and results (14h-16c)
- 6. The Bodhisattvas57
- a. The Bodhisattva's Vow (17a)
- b. His state of mind when he met Dipankara (17b)
- c. The Bodhisattva at the end of his career [17c-e)
- d. The Bodhisattva's attitude to his tasks (17f-h)
- 7. The Buddhas59
- a. The Buddha's Five Eyes (iSa)
- b. The Buddha's superknowledge of others' thoughts (186)
- c. The Buddha's Merit is no Merit (19)
- d. The Buddha's physical body (20)
- e. The Buddha's teaching (21)
- f. The Buddha's Dharma (22, 23)
- g. Once more about the Buddha's Merit (24)
- h. The Buddha as a saviour, and the nature of emancipation (25)
- i. The true nature of a Buddha (26)
- k. The effectiveness of meritorious deeds (27-29)
- 8. Advice to the imperfect64
- a. The material world (30)
- b. Views and attitudes (31)
- c. The key to supreme knowledge (32a)
- 9. The second conclusion (32b)71
- APPENDIX: The Frontispiece to the Tun Huang Print72
- THE HEART SUTRA
- Sanskrit text, translation and commentary
- I. The Invocation77
- II. The Prologue77
- III. The Dialectics of Emptiness. First Stage81
- IV. The Dialectics of Emptiness. Second Stage85
- V. The Dialectics of Emptiness. Third Stage89
- VI. The concrete embodiment of Full Emptiness, and its practical basis93
- VII. Full Emptiness is the basis also of Buddhahood98
- VIII. The teaching brought within the reach of the comparatively unenlightened101
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS108
- INDEX OF TERMS109
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One of the most revered and recited scriptures of the perfection of wisdom genre (prajñāpāramitāsūtras), perhaps second only to the Heart Sūtra, both of which became especially popular in the East Asian Buddhist traditions. It is a crucial source for Mahāyāna tenets of selflessness and the emptiness of phenomena, and its discourse is framed as an explanation of how to enter into the vehicle of the bodhisattvas by developing and sustaining their enlightened perspective.
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A landmark publication which offers Western readers a unique combination of what Buddhists worldwide consider the holiest of holy texts The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra, two sutras, or scriptures, ascribed to the early centuries of the first millennium.
The Diamond Sutra, or the Perfection of Wisdom, which cuts like a thunderbolt, is one of the cornerstone texts of Mahayana Buddhism and provides a summary of the core concepts of the Buddha. The Heart Sutra, perhaps the most important of all Buddhist texts, sets out to formulate the very heart, or essence of perfect wisdom and is studied with special reverence in Zen monasteries and the Tibetan Buddhist lamaseries.
Edward Conze, who was until his death in 1979 a powerful force for introducing Buddhism and its sacred texts to the West, has provided these translated key texts with an extensive commentary for the easiest possible appreciation phrase by phrase. (Source Accessed Aug 16, 2021)1 Scholarship on
One of the most revered and recited scriptures of the perfection of wisdom genre (prajñāpāramitāsūtras), perhaps second only to the Heart Sūtra, both of which became especially popular in the East Asian Buddhist traditions. It is a crucial source for Mahāyāna tenets of selflessness and the emptiness of phenomena, and its discourse is framed as an explanation of how to enter into the vehicle of the bodhisattvas by developing and sustaining their enlightened perspective.
