Diamond Sūtra 金剛般若波羅蜜經

The popular translation of this sūtra Kumārajīva with English commentary

Colophon

金剛般若波羅蜜經 後秦 鳩摩羅什譯 共 1 卷
Diamond Sūtra, Translated by Kumārajīva in the Later Qin.

Notes

The Diamond Sūtra, Sanskrit name Vajracchedikāprajñāpāramitāsūtra, was translated to Chinese in 401. (Lancaster, 2004, 'K 13')

English translations

  1. Red Pine 2009, The Diamond Sutra: Text and Commentaries Translated from Sanskrit and Chinese, Kindle ed. United Kingdom: Counterpoint.
  2. Yifa, M. C. Owens, and P. M. Romaskiewicz, 2006. Vajra Prajnaparamita Sutra. 2nd Ed., Buddha's Ligh Publishing, http://www.woodenfish.org/sutra/texts. Reproduced here with permission.

Primary Source

Kumārajīva, trans., 《金剛般若波羅蜜經》 'Diamond Sūtra,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 8, No. 235, Accessed 2016-07-08, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T08n0235.

Reference

  1. Lancaster, L.R., 2004. The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue, http://www.acmuller.net/descriptive_catalogue.

Parallels

  1. Tibetan: BDRC, 'phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa rdo rje gcod pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo, accessed 2021-02-24.
  2. Sanskrit: Vaidya, P.L. 1961, vajracchedikā nāma triśatikā prajñāpāramitā, Mahāyāna-sūtra-saṃgrahaḥ ( part 1), Darbhanga: The Mithila Institute of Post-Graduate Studies and Research in Sanskrit Learning, University of the West Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon, http://www.dsbcproject.org/canon-text/content/76/633.

Dharma Discussion

See Diamond Sutra Discussion

Manuscripts

  1. British Library, Printed copy of the Diamond Sutra.
  2. British Library, Digitised Manuscript Add MS 11746, Heart Sutra and Diamond Sutra with illustrations on leaves of ficus religiosa.

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