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Diamond Sutra

金剛經 (Jin'gang Jing)

translated into Chinese by Kumarajiva · AD 402 · Chang'an (China) · scripture

Even the categories a mind uses to grasp reality, self, being, a Buddha's teaching itself, must be released as empty of fixed essence, so the sutra repeatedly cuts down its own terms as soon as it offers them.

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Sutra in Forty-two Chapters · traditional legend dates the translation to AD 67 at Luoyang under Emperor Ming; most modern scholars regard the received text as a later Chinese compilation or digest, assembled anywhere from the 2nd to the 4th century AD, rather than a single translation event

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