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Buddhist Wisdom: Containing the Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra Paperback - 2001
by Edward Conze John F. Thornton Susan Varenne Judith Simmer-Brown
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- Title Buddhist Wisdom: Containing the Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra
- Author Edward Conze John F. Thornton Susan Varenne Judith Simmer-Brown
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage Books, U.S.A.
- Date 2001
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1-0375726004
- ISBN 9780375726002 / 0375726004
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.4 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 1.02 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Buddhist
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001022257
- Dewey Decimal Code 294.385
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the determination to reach enlightenment, which directs all the actions of a Bodhisattva; progress, to his steady growth in concentration and wisdom; control thought, to this ability to keep distractions away from the calm core of his inward mind.
From the rear cover
A landmark publication from its first appearance more than forty years ago, Buddhist Wisdom offers Western readers a unique combination of what Buddhists worldwide consider the holiest of holy texts -- The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra, 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.