Oct 1, 2024
The Diamond Sutra is a Mahāyāna (Buddhist) sutra from the
genre of Prajñāpāramitā ('perfection of wisdom') sutras. 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.
Sanskrit: वज्रच्छेदिकाप्रज्ञापारमितासूत्र, Vajracchedikā
Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra (translated roughly as 'The Perfection of
Wisdom Text that Cuts Like a Thunderbolt')
Chinese: 金剛般若波羅蜜多經 Jīngāng Bōrě-bōluómìduō Jīng; shortened to
金剛經 Jīngāng Jīng
Japanese: 金剛般若波羅蜜多経 Kongō hannya haramita kyō; shortened to
金剛経 Kongō-kyō
Korean: 금강반야바라밀경 geumgang banyabaramil gyeong; shortened to
금강경 geumgang gyeong
Classical Mongolian: Yeke kölgen sudur
Vietnamese: Kim cương bát-nhã-ba-la-mật-đa kinh; shortened to
Kim cương kinh
Standard Tibetan:
འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཅོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
’phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa rdo rje gcod pa zhes bya
ba theg pa chen po’i mdo