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Diamond Sūtra 18

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English · F. Max Müller

Bhagavat said: ‘What do you think, O Subhati, has the Tathagata the bodily eye’ Subhhti said: ‘Soit is, O Bhagavat, the Tathigata has the bodily eye.

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English · F. Max Müller

Bhagavat said: ‘What do you think, O Subhati, has the Tathagata the heavenly eye’ Subhati said: ‘So it is, O Bhagavat, the Tathagata has the heavenly eye.’

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English · F. Max Müller

Bhagavat said: ‘What do you think, O Subhhti, has the Tathagata the eye of knowledge’ Subhuti said: ‘So it is, O Bhagavat, the Tathagata has the eye of knowledge.’

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English · F. Max Müller

Bhagavat said: ‘What do you think, O Subhhti, has the Tathagata the eye of the Law’ Subhati said: ‘So it is, O Bhagavat, the Tathagata has the eye of the Law.’

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English · F. Max Müller

Bhagavat said: ‘What do you think, O Subhati, has the Tathdgata the eye of Buddha’ Subhhti said: ‘So it is, O Bhagavat, the Tathagata has the eye of Buddha.’

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English · F. Max Müller

Bhagavat said: ‘What do you think, O Subhhti, as many grains of sand as there are in the great river Gangi—were they preached by the Tathagata as grains of sand’ Subhiti said: ‘So it is, O Bhagavat, so it is, O Sugata, they were preached as grains of sand by the Tathagata.’ Bhagavat said: ‘What do you think, O Subhati, if there were as many Gangd rivers as there are grains of sand in the great river Ganga; and, if there were as many worlds as there are grains of sand in these, would these worlds be many’ Subhati said: ‘So it is, O Bhagavat, so it is, O Sugata, these would these worlds would be many. Bhagavat said: ‘As many beings as there are in all those worlds, I know the manifold trains of thought of them all. And why? Because what was preached as the train of thoughts, the train of thoughts indeed, O Subhhti, that was preached by the Tathagata as no-train of thoughts, and therefore it is called the train of thoughts. And why? Because, O Subhuti, a past thought is not perceived, a future thought is not perceived, and the present thought is not perceived.’

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F. Max Müller's translation (1894) of the Vajracchedikā, read from scans of the printed volume. A few section numbers the scans did not show are run into the section before.

Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East vol. 49 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894): the Buddha-karita of Aśvaghoṣa, translated by E. B. Cowell; the Larger and Smaller Sukhāvatī-vyūha, the Vagrakkhedikā and the Pragñā-pāramitā-hṛdaya-sūtra, translated by F. Max Müller. Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive. · Source ↗

Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East 49 (1894). Public domain. Read from scans of the printed edition: every word was checked against three or four independent scans of the same printing and corrected where they agree; footnotes, running heads and page numbers are left out. Diacritics the OCR could not read are not reproduced.

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