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Diamond Sūtra 23

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English · F. Max Müller

‘Also, Subhfti, all is the same there, there is no difference there, and therefore it is called the highest perfect knowledge. Free from self, free from being, free from life, free from personality, that highest perfect knowledge is always the same, and thus known with all good things. And why? Because, what were preached as good things, good things indeed, O Subhuti, they were preached as no-things by the Tathagata, and therefore they are called good things.’

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‘And if, O Subhuti, a woman or man, putting together as many heaps of the seven treasures as there are Sumerus, kings of mountains, in the sphere of a million millions of worlds, should give them as a gift to holy and fully enlightened Tathagatas; and, ifa son or a daughter of a good family, after taking from this treatise of the Law, this Pragñaparamita, one Gathé of four lines only, should teach it to others, then, O Subhuti, compared with his stock of merit, the former stock of merit would not come to the one hundredth part,’ &c.?, till ‘it will not bear an approach.’

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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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