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
- Red Pine 2009, The Diamond Sutra: Text and Commentaries Translated from Sanskrit and Chinese, Kindle ed. United Kingdom: Counterpoint.
- 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
- Lancaster, L.R., 2004. The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue, http://www.acmuller.net/descriptive_catalogue.
Parallels
- 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.
- 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 DiscussionManuscripts
- British Library, Printed copy of the Diamond Sutra.
- British Library, Digitised Manuscript Add MS 11746, Heart Sutra and Diamond Sutra with illustrations on leaves of ficus religiosa.