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English · F. Max Müller

At that time again the venerable Subhhti came to that assembly and sat down. Then rising from his seat and putting his robe over one shoulder, kneeling on the earth with his right knee, he stretched out his folded hands towards Bhagavat and said to him: ‘It is wonderful, O Bhagavat, it is exceedingly wonderful, O Sugata, how much the noble-minded Bodhisattvas have been favoured with the highest favour by the Tathâgata, the holy and fully enlightened! It is wonderful how much the noble-minded Bodhisattvas have been instructed! with the highest instruction by the Tathagata, the holy and fully enlightened! How then, O Bhagavat, should the son or the daughter of a good family, after having entered on the path of the Bodhisattvas, behave, how should he advance, and how should he restrain his thoughts’

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English · F. Max Müller

After the venerable SubhAti had thus spoken, Bhagavat said to him: ‘Well said, well said, Subhuti! So it is, Subhuti, so it is, as you say. The noble-minded Bodhisattvas have been favoured with the highest favour by the Tathagata, the noble-minded Bodhisattvas have been instructed with the highest instruction by the Tathagata. Therefore, O Subhiti, listen and take it to heart, well and rightly. I shall tell you, how any one who has entered on the path of Bodhisattvas should behave, how he should advance, and how he should restrain his thoughts. Then the venerable Subhdti answered the Bhagavat and said: ‘So be it, O Bhagavat.”

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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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