Vajracchedika prajnaparamita Sutra (The Diamond Sutra) (2004)

This is a woodblock-printed book based on the Diamond Sutra translated by Kumarajiva, to which commentary on the sutra by the Sixth Patriarch Huineng has been appended. The Vajracchedika prajnaparamita Sutra (The Diamond Sutra), often abbreviated as the Diamond Sutra, takes as its central teaching the concept of emptiness — that because no phenomenon has any fixed substance, one should not give rise to an attached mind. In the tenth chapter, "Adorning the Pure Land," it teaches that one should "give rise to a mind that dwells nowhere," maintaining a pure mind without attachment to external objects. This is the famous passage that brought enlightenment to Huineng and many other eminent monks. In Korea it is the fundamental sutra of the Jogye Order and, together with the Heart Sutra, one of the most widely read sutras. Notably, it was carved in 1305, the thirty-first year of King Chungnyeol of Goryeo, at Wonheungsa Temple in Cheongju; it is a temple edition sponsored by Yukgu of Wonheungsa Temple and the lay Buddhist devotee Bak Ji-yo, among others. As an edition printed before Jikji, published at Heungdeoksa Temple in 1377, it is valuable as important evidence that the Cheongju region was the birthplace of printing culture in Korea.

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Where it is

Region

Cheongju, Chungbuk

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Treasure · 보물