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The Diamond Sutra (Sanskrit: Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra) is a Mahāyāna Buddhist sutra (a kind of holy scripture) from the genre of Prajñāpāramitā ('perfection of wisdom') sutras.
The Heart of Buddhist Wisdom: Plain English Translations of the Heart Sutra, the Diamond-Cutter Sutra, and other Perfection of Wisdom Texts, ISBN 978-1-4783-8957-6: Jackson Square Books Clear translations and summaries of the most important texts with essays 2012 Geshe Kelsang Gyatso: Heart of Wisdom ISBN 0-948006-77-3: Tharpa
The Diamond Sutra, also called the Vajra Cutter Sutra, available in multiple languages from the FPMT; The Essential Songs of Milarepa / VI. Songs About Vajra Love 46. Answer to Dakini Tzerima. Archived 2015-03-11 at the Wayback Machine.
Marcel Tolkowsky (25 December 1899 – 10 February 1991), [1] an engineer by education, was a Belgian member of a Jewish family of diamond cutters from Poland.He is generally acknowledged as the father of the modern round brilliant diamond cut. [2]
An example of this is the marquise cut diamond which was popular in the 1970s to 1980s. In later decades, jewelers had little success in selling this shape in comparison to other shapes like the oval or pear shape. [citation needed] The marquise can be cut into an oval diamond by any diamond cutter with a loss of 5 to 10% in total weight.
To this were gradually added (3) material from the Abhidharma, (4) concessions to the "Buddhism of Faith" (referring to Pure Land references in the sūtra), and then (5) the expansion into the larger sūtras, their (6) contraction into the shorter sūtras (i.e. Diamond Sūtra, Heart Sūtra, down to the Prajñāpāramitā in One Letter), which ...
2007 - Teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra, by Shakyamuni Buddha, and Seventy Verses on Emptiness, by Nagarjuna, as well as a public talk Peace and Prosperity, at Radio City Music Hall 2010 - Four-day teaching on Commentary on Bodhicitta by Nagarjuna, and A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life , by Shantideva , followed by a public talk ...
The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang dynasty China, the world's earliest printed text containing a date of production, AD 868 (British Library) Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of ...