The Diamond Sutra: Transforming the Way We Perceive the World

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The Diamond Sutra: Transforming the Way We Perceive the World

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Translations of Sutras (Skt-Eng)

• A Few Good Men
• A New Translation of the Sanskrit Bhadracarī with Introduction and Notes
• Affirmation in Negation: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices
• Annotated Translation of the Daśabhūmika-sūtra
• Caturdharmikasūtra (Tseng, V.)
• 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 Diamond Sutra (Conze)
• The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom
• The Diamond Sutra: Transforming the Way We Perceive the World
• The Final Leaves of the Pravrajyāvastu Portion of the Vinayavastu Manuscript Found Near Gilgit: Part 1 Saṃgharakṣitāvadāna
• 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 Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra (1978)
• The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra (2003)
• 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 Skill in Means (Upāyakauśalya) Sūtra
• The Story of Saṅgharakṣita (Stories 23–25)
• The Story of a Wretched Pig: Sūkarika-avadāna
• The Sūtra of the Golden Light
• The Sūtra of the Young Rice Plant (Śālistambasūtra)
• The Ten Grounds Sutra
• Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā (Conze)
• Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā (English)
• Vimalakīrtinirdeśasūtra (Joshi and Prāsādika)

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In this brilliant new translation and commentary on The Diamond Sutra—one of the sublime wisdom teachings of Mahayana Buddhism—Mu Soeng integrates this ancient wisdom teaching with current scientific and psychological thought. His clear and readable commentary traces the connections between these teachings and contemporary theories of quantum reality, explores the sutra within the framework of Buddhist meditation practices, and provides a comprehensive historical survey of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. Mu Soeng's goal throughout is to reveal the inspiration and wisdom of The Diamond Sutra to today's reader in an accessible, engaging, and modern manner. (Source: Wisdom Publications)

Citation

Soeng, Mu, trans. The Diamond Sutra: Transforming the Way We Perceive the World. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2000.

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Table of contents

• PrefaceVII
• A Note on TerminologyXI

• PART I
• Early Buddhism and Mahayana3
• The Mahayana Sutras21
• The Prajnaparamita Sutras29
• A Thematic Understanding of the Prajnaparamita Tradition33
• The Diamond Sutra in the Mahayana57
• The Role of the Diamond Sutra in the Zen Tradition61
• Literary and Social Conventions in the Diamond Sutra65

• PART II
• The Diamond Sutra: Translated Text and Commentary71

• Appendix: The Text of the Diamond Sutra141
• Notes157
• Bibliography163
• Index167

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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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Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt प्रज्ञापारमिता  Tib ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་;ཤེར་ཕྱིན་  Ch 般若波羅蜜多  

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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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