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The Diamond Sutra

The Diamond Sutra

The Diamond Sutra
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The Diamond Sutra Paperback - 2002

by Pine, Red

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  • Title The Diamond Sutra
  • Author Pine, Red
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Counterpoint, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2002-11-18
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ANAIS-1582432562
  • ISBN 9781582432564 / 1582432562
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.14 x 5.48 x 1.28 in (20.68 x 13.92 x 3.25 cm)
  • Size 9.5X6.5X1.5
  • Reading level 1150
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Buddhist
  • Category Religion - World Religions
  • Dewey Decimal Code 294.3
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

WINNER OF THE 2018 THORNTON WILDER PRIZE FOR TRANSLATION

A masterful translation of the Diamond Sutra, an essential Zen Buddhist scripture--with insightful commentary and helpful historical context

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.

First line

ONE: Thus have I heard: Once the Bhagavan was dwelling near Shravasti at Anathapindada Garden in Jeta Forest together with the full assembly of 1250 bhikshus and a great many fearless dodhisattvas.

About the author

RED PINE (Bill Porter) is widely recognized as one of the world's preeminent translators of Chinese poetry and religious texts; he assumes the pen name "Red Pine" for his translations.

Writing as Red Pine, he was the first translator to ever translate the entirety of Han-shan's oeurve into English, published as The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain. Red Pine was also the first to translate into English the entirely of The Poems of the Masters. He has also translated several of the major Buddhist sutras, including the Heart Sutra, Diamond Sutra, and Platform Sutra.

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