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The Diamond Sutra |
Author: Red Pine
Published: 2002-11-18 |
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 An in-depth treatment of one of the most important Buddhist sutras
The Diamond Sutra is one of the most influential Buddhist Sutras of all time. Hui-Neng, the Sixth Grand Master of Zen in China is said to have realized enlightenment just from hearing it read out loud.
The Diamond Sutra is one of The Perfection of Wisdom Sutras, and Red Pine provides an in-depth introduction and commentary throughout.
Red Pine also offers detailed comments for each section of this incredible text, via translations from the commentaries of some of the greatest Buddhist teachers from a variety of schools, including Hui-neng, and many other Zen masters.
If you are interested in what the Diamond Sutra is all about, there is no other single volume that packs this kind of information. It is awesome!
The Diamond Sutra
Excellent translation. Red Pine has insight that relates to the layperson as well as the scholar or pupil.
They don't call it "Perfection of Wisdom" for nothing!
This text is very wise indeed. A great book for those seeking the way of non-attachment. Are you suffering? Then get this book. Don't have the money? Then why suffer? You are complete.
A superb volume
Red Pine's translation of the Diamond Sutra, is, in my opinion, the best out there. Though A.F. Price's version is still a classic, and better in terms of flow, Pine's edition expresses clearly the difficult teachings of emptiness, many of which are missed in more eloquent versions. Even more impressive is the vast array of sources that Pine uses to make four hundred pages of commentary on it, a commentary which should clarify this difficult teaching for most students.
The Buddhist text that even cuts like a diamond through Buddhism
Mahayana Buddhism has provided some of the most profound texts for cutting right to the core. The Diamond Sutra even cuts through Buddhist beliefs. In this sutra, the Buddha shows even his most important teachings to be provisional. This and the Heart Sutra are the two most chanted sutras in Zen. In this book, The Diamond Sutra is presented in an unsurpassed English translation. I have read others and this is the clearest, rendered with simplicity and poetic cadence. The Sutra itself is only twenty-seven pages, and is given right at the beginning of this 471-page book. In the East, no one would think of reading a sacred text without commentaries from prominent teachers. Here, thanks to Red Pine, we too can be guided by the likes of Hui-neng, Asanga, Fu-hsi, Seng-chao, and others. So, the Sutra is here broken down chapter by chapter and line by line with commentaries, and textual notes which carefully explain the content of the sutra. What is going to be important for the reader is that the commentaries are not dry, dull stuff; they are meaningful, rich with insight, even absorbing. In other words, they not only make accessible the scholarship necessary to understand the text, but they are worthy of meditation, which is how I use the book, a section each morning. I don't think you'll find a more helpful book on the Diamond Sutra.
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