Describing the Indescribable
A Commentary on the Diamond Sutra
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2016
224 pages
978-0-86171-826-9 (ISBN)
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The Diamond Sutra is revered throughout Asia as one of the Buddha's most profound expressions of the nature of reality. A gem among the vast Perfection of Wisdom literature, the Diamond Sutra elicits an experience of eternal truth through its use of a seemingly paradoxical style, as the reader goes back and forth between "what is" and "what is not." Master Hsing Yun skillfully plumbs the depths of the Diamond Sutra, illuminating for us its power to change who we are and how we interpret our world.
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Master Hsing Yun is the founder of Fo Guang Shan-an international Buddhist order with temples worldwide-the affiliated Buddha's Light International, and University of the West in Rosemead, California. Born in 1927, he is a forty-eighth patriarch of the Lin Chi (Rinzai) School of Zen Buddhism and lives in Taiwan.
Tom Graham, a scholar and translator of Chinese, worked in East Asia for ten years. He now resides in San Diego, California.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- TEXT OF THE DIAMOND SUTRA
- MASTER HSING YUN'S COMMENTARY
- 1 The Causes of This Dharma Meeting
- 2 Subhuti's Request
- 3 PART I: The Heart of the Mahayana
- 3 PART II: The Heart of the Mahayana (continued)
- 4 The Wonder of Behaving Without Attachment
- 5 Seeing the Truth That Lies Beneath Perception
- 6 The Rarity of True Belief
- 7 Nothing Has Been Attained and Nothing Has Been Said
- 8 Enlightenment Comes from These Teachings
- 9 The Four Fruits Are Empty
- 10 Making the Buddha Realm Magnificent
- 11 The Unconditioned Is Supreme
- 12 Honoring the True Teaching
- 13 The Name of This Sutra
- 14 Ultimate Tranquility Beyond Lakshana
- 15 The Goodness of Upholding This Sutra
- 16 Purification of Karma
- 17 Complete and Utter Selflessness
- 18 One Body Sees All
- 19 Universal Transformation Within the Dharma Realm
- 20 Beyond Form and Lakshana
- 21 Speaking the Unspeakable
- 22 The Unattainable Dharma
- 23 Perfect Equanimity
- 24 True Generosity Lies in Upholding This Sutra
- 25 Transforming That Which Cannot Be Transformed
- 26 The Dharma Body Is Without Lakshana
- 27 Nothing Is Ended and Nothing Is Extinguished
- 28 Not Receiving and Not Wanting to Receive
- 29 Awesome Tranquility
- 30 Compound Lakshana
- 31 Not Giving Rise to Belief in Lakshana
- 32 Like Shadows, Like Bubbles, Like Dreams
- NOTES
- GLOSSARY
- SUGGESTED FURTHER READING
- ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
