The Diamond Sutra PDF – Overview
The Diamond Sutra translation has been prepared by the Buddhist Text Translation Society of the Sino-American Buddhist Association, under the auspices of Gold Mountain Dhyàna Monastery, Published by the Sino-American Buddhist Association, Incorporated, 1731 – 15th Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, USA.
The Diamond Sutra says, One should produce a heart without dwelling anywhere. The Sixth Patriarch, the Great Master Hui, heard that sentence and awakened to the Way. Any dwelling of the heart is no dwelling. Therefore the Larger Chapters say, If one dwells in dharmas, he does not dwell in prajna paramita.
The Diamond Sutra
Contents of The Diamond Sutra
- Introductions
- How the Translation was made
- Preface
- The Title
- The Translator
- Chapter 1 – The Reasons for the Dharma Assembly
- Chapter 2 – Subhåti’s Request
- Chapter 3 – The Orthodox Doctrine of the Great Vehicle
- Chapter 4 – Wonderful Conduct without Dwelling
- Chapter 5 – The Thus Principle of Genuine Seeing
- Chapter 6 – Proper Belief is Rare
- Chapter 7 – Nothing Attained, Nothing Spoken
- Chapter 8 – Relying on Dharma They Come Forth
- Chapter 9 – The One Mark is No Mark
- Chapter 10 – The Adornment of Pure Lands
- Chapter 11 – The Supremacy of Unconditioned Blessings
- Chapter 12 – Revering the Orthodox Teaching
- Chapter 13 – Receiving & Holding Thus Dharma
- Chapter 14 – Still Extinction Apart from Marks
- Chapter 15 – The Merit & Virtue of Holding the Såtra
- Chapter 16 – Karmic Obstructions can be Purified
- Chapter 17 – Ultimately there is No Self
- Chapter 18 – One Substance Regarded as Identical
- Chapter 19 – The Dharma Realm Penetrated & Transformed
- Chapter 20 – Apart from Form & Apart from Marks
- Chapter 21 – Spoken Yet Not Spoken
- Chapter 22 – There is No Dharma which can be Obtained
- Chapter 23 – The Pure Heart Practices Good
- Chapter 24 – Blessings and Wisdom Beyond Compare
- Chapter 25 – Transformations without what is Transformed
- Chapter 26 – The Dharma Body has No Marks
- Chapter 27 – Not Cut Off & Not Extinguished
- Chapter 28 – No Reception & No Greed
- Chapter 29 – The Stillness of the Awesome Manner
- Chapter 30 – The Totality of Principle & Marks
- Chapter 31 – Neither Knowing Nor Seeing is Produced
- Chapter 32 – The Response & Transformation Bodies are Unreal
- The Buddhist Text Translation Society
- Lists of Committee Members
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