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I can see from your context that the "Diamond Sutra" is a Mahayana sutra, but this single categorization doesn't provide enough specific information for me to write an accurate and substantive 2-sentence overview for a general reader. To avoid inventing facts, I would need additional details about what the text teaches, its historical significance, or its importance within Buddhism.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Diamond Sutra is referenced by 344 other articles, and connects out to Korean Buddhism, The Buddha and Mahāyāna.
It sits within the topics 9th-century Chinese books, 9th century in China and British Library oriental manuscripts.
Its subject is documented across 45 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Jingangjing.jpg
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- title
- འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཅོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
- Commons category
- Diamond Sutra
- publication date
- 0868-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The Diamond Sūtra (Sanskrit: Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra) is a Mahāyāna Buddhist sutra from the genre of Prajñāpāramitā ('perfection of wisdom') sutras. Translated into a variety of languages over a broad geographic range, the Diamond Sūtra is one of the most influential Mahayana sutras in East Asia, and it is particularly prominent within the Chan (or Zen) tradition, along with the Heart Sutra.
A copy of the Tang dynasty Diamond Sūtra was found among the Dunhuang manuscripts in 1900 by Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu and sold to Aurel Stein in 1907. It dates back to May 11, 868 CE and is broadly considered to be the oldest extant printed book, although other, earlier, printed materials on paper exist that predate this artifact. It is in the collection of the British Library.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Diamond Sutra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.