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English · F. Max Müller

And again Bhagavat spoke thus to the venerable Subhuti: ‘What do you think, O Subhuti, is there anything (dharma) that was known by the Tathagata under the name of the highest perfect knowledge, or anything that was taught by the Tathagata’

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After these words, the venerable Subhuti spoke thus to Bhagavat: ‘As I, O Bhagavat, understand the meaning of the preaching of the Bhagavat, there is nothing that was known by the Tathagata under the name of the highest perfect knowledge, nor is there anything that is taught by the Tathagata. And why? Because that thing which was known or taught by the Tathâgata is incomprehensible and inexpressible. It is neither a thing nor no-thing. And why? Because the holy persons? are of imperfect power.’

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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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