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Diamond Sūtra 28

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English · F. Max Müller

‘And if, O Subhati, a son or a daughter of a good family were to fill worlds equal to the number of grains of sand of the river Ganga with the seven treasures, and give them as a gift to holy and fully enlightened Tathagatas; and if a Bodhisattva acquired endurance in selfless and uncreated things, then the latter will on the strength of this produce a larger stock of merit, immeasurable and innumerable.

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English · F. Max Müller

‘But, O Subhati, a stock of merit should not be appropriated by a noble-minded Bodhisattva.’ The venerable Subhuti said: ‘Should a stock of merit, O Bhagavat, not be appropriated by a Bodhisattva’ Bhagavat said: ‘It should be appropriated, O Subhiti; it should not be appropriated; and therefore it is said: It should be appropriated.’

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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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