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My talk today is on the Diamond Sutra, which is properly called the Vajracchedika-prajnaparamita-sutra.
Open Buddha Al 2010
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The Diamond Sutra, dated "the 13th of the fourth moon of the ninth year of Xiatong" or 868AD, is a sacred text of the Buddhist faith and one of the hidden treasures of the British Library.
Online is fine, but history is best hands on | Tristram Hunt 2011
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When the two were face to face in the stillness of the night, the Fifth Patriarch expounded the Diamond Sutra to Hui-neng.
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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When the two were face to face in the stillness of the night, the Fifth Patriarch expounded the Diamond Sutra to Hui-neng.
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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Suddenly, awareness has no fixed location: the mind is alive and free, as the Diamond Sutra says, without abiding in anything or anywhere.
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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Suddenly, awareness has no fixed location: the mind is alive and free, as the Diamond Sutra says, without abiding in anything or anywhere.
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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The Diamond Sutra, dated "the 13th of the fourth moon of the ninth year of Xiatong" or 868AD, is a sacred text of the Buddhist faith and one of the hidden treasures of the British Library.
Online is fine, but history is best hands on | Tristram Hunt 2011
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India from October 15 to 18: His Holiness will give teachings on The Diamond Sutra (dorjee chotpa), Geshe Chekewa's
Archive 2010
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India from October 15 to 18: His Holiness will give teachings on The Diamond Sutra (dorjee chotpa), Geshe Chekewa's
Archive 2010
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Certain cultural relics, such as the Diamond Sutra in Sutra Rock Valley, are in urgent need of restoration.
Mount Taishan Scenic Beauty and Historic Interest Zone, China 2008
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"The most famous text from the library cave is the Diamond Sutra, which was not copied by hand but printed with woodblocks. The Chinese first developed this method in the early eighth century when they realized that they could take a sheet of paper with characters on it, glue it face-down on a block of soft wood, cut out the wood around the characters to form a reverse image, and then print the positive image using that block. The Diamond Sutra from Dunhuang consists of seven woodblock-printed sheets that have been glued together."
--Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 179
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"The documents about the princes' difficulties are among the forty thousand documents in multiple languages preserved in the library cave at Dunhuang, which was sealed sometime after 1002 and serves as a time capsule of Silk Road diversity. The Buddhist librarian-monks who saved the texts collected the teachings of their own religion, of course, but kept all scraps of paper in case they might prove useful in the future. They saved texts written in Sanskrit, Khotanese, Tibetan, Uighur, and Sogdian, and from the religions of Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Judaism, and Buddhism. The Diamond Sutra is the most famous of all the writings from the library cave, because it is the world's earliest dated printed book, but other texts are arguably more unusual: think of the talisman made from a sheet of folded paper with excerpts in Hebrew from Psalms or the Manichaean hymns sung in Sogdian but written phonetically in Chinese characters. The entire cave embodies the tolerance of different religions that characterized Silk Road communities for nearly one thousand years."
--Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 241
January 4, 2017