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The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom

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Translations of Sutras (Skt-Eng)

• A Few Good Men
• A New Translation of the Sanskrit Bhadracarī with Introduction and Notes
• A Treasury of Mahāyāna Sūtras
• Abiding in Good and Noble Deportment
• Affirmation in Negation: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices
• Annotated Translation of the Daśabhūmika-sūtra
• Appendix to the New Edition of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Buddha Pronounces the Sūtra of the Great Cundī Dhāraṇī
• Caturdharmikasūtra (Tseng, V.)
• Chapter on Entering the Inconceivable Liberated State of Samantabhadra's Practices and Vows
• Dialogue With Bodhisattva Infinite Wisdom
• Mahāvaipulya Sūtra of the Tathāgata Store
• Myōhō-renge-kyō
• On Entering into the Inconceivable State of Emancipation by the Practice and Vows of the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra of the Mahavaipulya Buddha Avatamsaka Sutra
• On the Pāramitā of Ingenuity
• Saddharma-Puṇḍarīka or the Lotus of the True Law (1963)
• Sarvadharmāpravṛttinirdeśa (Braarvig, J.)
• Saṅgharakṣita-avadāna (Hiraoka)
• Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma
• Siṃhaparipṛcchāsūtra (Tseng, V.)
• The Bhaiṣajyaguru-Sūtra and the Buddhism of Gilgit
• The Buddhist Feminine Ideal
• The Definitive Vinaya
• The Dhâranî of Tchundi
• The Diamond Cutter of Doubts: A Commentary on The Diamond Sūtra (Vajracchedikā-prajñā-pāramitā Sūtra) By Ch'an Master Han Shan
• The Diamond Prajna Paramita Sutra
• The Diamond Prajna-Paramita Sutra
• The Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching), or Prajna-Paramita
• The Diamond Sutra (Conze)
• The Diamond Sutra (Hsüan Hua)
• The Diamond Sutra (Wai-tao and Goddard)
• The Diamond Sutra and The Sutra of Hui Neng
• The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom
• The Diamond Sutra: Transforming the Way We Perceive the World
• The Diamond Sutra: Translated from Kumarajiva's Chinese Version
• The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion
• The Essentials of the Dharma Blossom Sutra
• The Final Leaves of the Pravrajyāvastu Portion of the Vinayavastu Manuscript Found Near Gilgit: Part 1 Saṃgharakṣitāvadāna
• The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of The Avatamsaka Sutra
• The Giving Rise of the Ten Kinds of Mind of the Bodhisattva
• The Great Vows of Samantabhadra
• The Healing Buddha (1979)
• The Healing Buddha (1989)
• 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 (English)
• The Lankavatara Sutra (1966)
• The Lankavatara Sutra: A Zen Text
• The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra (1978)
• The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra (2003)
• The Lion's Roar of Queen Śrīmālā
• The Lotus Sutra (2016) (BDK)
• The Lotus Sutra (Watson)
• The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic
• The Lotus Sutra: The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Dharma
• The Lotus of the Wonderful Law or The Lotus Gospel (2005)
• The Mahayana Mahaparinirvana-sutra (3 vols.)
• The Manuscript of the Vajracchedikā Found at Gilgit
• The Perfection of Wisdom (Jamieson)
• The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (1994) (South Asia Books)
• The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (1994) (Sri Satguru Publications)
• The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Four Seasons Foundation)
• The Pratyutpanna Samādhi Sutra: The Śūraṅgama Samādhi Sutra
• The Prediction of Mañjuśrī's Attainment of Buddhahood
• The Scripture of Master of Medicine, Beryl Radiance Tathāgata and The Sutra of the Girl Candrottarā
• The Shurangama Sutra - Volume Eight
• The Shurangama Sutra - Volume Five
• The Shurangama Sutra - Volume Four
• The Shurangama Sutra - Volume One
• The Shurangama Sutra - Volume Seven
• The Shurangama Sutra - Volume Six
• The Shurangama Sutra - Volume Three
• The Shurangama Sutra - Volume Two
• The Shurangama Sutra: Sutra Text and Supplements
• The Skill in Means (Upāyakauśalya) Sūtra
• The Sky as a Mahāyāna Symbol of Emptiness and Generous Fullness: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: Volume 2: Edition and Translation
• The Story of Saṅgharakṣita (Stories 23–25)
• The Story of a Wretched Pig: Sūkarika-avadāna
• The Sutra of Queen Śrīmālā of the Lion's Roar and the Vimalakīrti Sutra
• The Sutra of the Lord of Healing
• The Sutra of the Master of Healing
• The Sūtra of the Golden Light
• The Sūtra of the Young Rice Plant (Śālistambasūtra)
• The Tale of King Udayana of Vatsa
• The Ten Grounds Sutra
• The Threefold Lotus Sūtra
• The True Lion's Roar of Queen Śrīmālā
• The Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
• The Vimalakīrti Sūtra (Watson)
• The Vow to Live the Life of Samanta-bhadra
• The Vows of Bodhisattva Samantabhadra Sutra
• The Śūraṅgama Sūtra: A New Translation
• Vaipulya Sūtra of Śrīmālā's Lion's Roar That Reveals the Great Skillful Means of the One Vehicle
• Vajra-chhedika, the "Kin Kong King," or Diamond Sutra
• Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā (Conze)
• Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā (English)
• Vimalakīrti's Discourse on Emancipation
• Vimalakīrti-Nirdeśa-Sūtra: Translated from the Chinese
• Vimalakīrtinirdeśasūtra (Joshi and Prāsādika)

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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

Zen Buddhism is often said to be a practice of mind–to–mind transmission without reliance on texts ––in fact, some great teachers forbid their students to read or write. But Buddhism has also inspired some of the greatest philosophical writings of any religion, and two such works lie at the center of Zen: The Heart Sutra, which monks recite all over the world, and The Diamond Sutra, said to contain answers to all questions of delusion and dualism. This is the Buddhist teaching on the perfection of wisdom and cuts through all obstacles on the path of practice. As Red Pine explains: The Diamond Sutra may look like a book, but it’s really the body of the Buddha. It’s also your body, my body, all possible bodies. But it’s a body with nothing inside and nothing outside. It doesn’t exist in space or time. Nor is it a construct of the mind. It’s no mind. And yet because it’s no mind, it has room for compassion. This book is the offering of no mind, born of compassion for all suffering beings. Of all the sutras that teach this teaching, this is the diamond. (Source: Counterpoint Press)

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Red Pine (Bill Porter), trans. The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2001.

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https://www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/the-diamond-sutra/

Table of contents

• The Diamond Sutra1
• Translator’s Preface29
• Commentary39
• Names, Terms, and Sources437

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Vajracchedikāprajñāpāramitāsūtra [वज्रच्छेदिकाप्रज्ञापारमितासूत्र]. 'phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa rdo rje gcod pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཅོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra on the Perfection of Wisdom "The Diamond Cutter" (84000)]. Translated by Bodhiruci, Śīlendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Kumārajīva, Paramārtha, Dharmagupta, Yijing, Xuanzang. Kangyur, RKTSK 16 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=16&typ=1.འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཅོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

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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.

Prajñā - One of the key terms for wisdom or knowledge, most often having the sense of insight, transcendent knowledge, or perhaps gnosis. In some contexts it can also refer to cognition or intellectual understanding. Skt प्रज्ञा  Tib ཤེས་རབ་  Ch 般若  

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Karuṇā - The profound wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. It is a core virtue in Buddhism and, in the Mahāyāna tradition, develops into 'great compassion' (mahākaruṇā), the driving force behind the pursuit of enlightenment for the benefit of others. Skt करुणा  Tib ཐུགས་རྗེ་  Ch 悲  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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Anātman - The Buddhist teaching of "non-self" or "selflessness"—the understanding that there is no permanent, unchanging self or soul within living beings. Along with impermanence (anitya) and suffering (duḥkha), it is one of the three marks of existence that characterize all conditioned phenomena. Skt अनात्मन्  Tib བདག་མེད་པ་  Ch 无我  

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Śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt शून्यता  Tib སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་  Ch 空;空門  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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