Tao Te Ching
Diamond Sutra
By Buddha
The world’s oldest known dated and printed book, The Diamond Sutra may also be one of the world’s greatest transmitters of a deep wisdom that shatters illusions and points out ultimate reality. Attributed to the Buddha, scholars call this book "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book." One of the most influential Mahayana sutras, root text for Zen Buddhism, first translated into Chinese by Kumārajīva in 401 CE; the Diamond Sutra became a foundation for not only Chinese Buddhism but Chinese culture in general. By the year 907 there were already more than 800 Chinese commentaries. A recently (1907) discovered wood block copy was printed in 868, 587 years before the West’s first printed book, the Gutenberg Bible. वज्रच्छेदिकाप्रज्ञापारमितासूत्र, 金剛般若波羅蜜多經, 금강반야바라밀경, འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཅོ
Quotes from Diamond Sutra
“All things that appear in this world are transient. If you view all things that appear as never having appeared, then you will realize your true self.”
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“Cease to cherish any arbitrary conceptions as to your own self, the selfhood of others, of living beings, of a Universal Self.”
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“Those who relinquish all forms are called Buddhas, Enightened Ones.”
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“Truth cannot be cut up into pieces and arranged into a system. Words are only a figure of speech.”
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“We refer to it as life and death, but there is no life or death.”
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“What is known as the teaching of the Buddha is not the teaching of the Buddha.”
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