Category: Philosophy & Ethics
This English version of _The Diamond Sutra_,[1] translated from the Chinese text of Kumarajiva, owes its inception to successive conversations with a friend, profoundly interested in the interpretation of oriental systems of philosophy. During those conversations renderings in...
[1] “The first of the Buddha’s bodies is the _Dharma-Kaya_ (body of the Law), supposed to be a kind of ethereal essence of a highly sublimated nature and co-extensive with space...
5. Part 5The Lord Buddha, continuing, said unto Subhuti: “Wherever this Scripture is proclaimed, even though it were but a stanza comprising four lines, you should realise that that plac...
3. Part 3[11] “By many of the Buddhists it is considered to be an act of great merit to make a vow never to partake of food without giving a portion to the priests.”—_Eastern Monachism_....
6. Part 6[1] Literally, for the _ta-cheng-che_—those of the great vehicle, _i.e._, the Mahayana faith. “They taught (the Mahayana school) that there were two methods of salvation, or, so...
2. Part 2Again, in the seventeenth chapter of _The Diamond Sutra_, it is declared that in the word “Buddha,” every Law is intelligibly comprehended.[40] To Western minds, it might become...
1. Part 1This English version of _The Diamond Sutra_,[1] translated from the Chinese text of Kumarajiva, owes its inception to successive conversations with a friend, profoundly interest...
4. Part 4The Lord Buddha addressed Subhuti, saying: “What think you? Has the Lord Buddha really attained to supreme spiritual wisdom? Or has he a system of doctrine which can be specific...
8. Part 8If the worlds were real and permanent, they would always retain their original forms and primordial natures, and be subject neither to the influence of time nor the Law of chang...