( CHIN-KANG-CHING ) OR PRAJNA-PARAMITA TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY WILLIAM GEMMELL 金剛經 LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., LTD. BROADWAY HOUSE, 68–74 CARTER LANE, E.C. 1912 THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO MY FRIEND WILLIAM NIVEN, Esq., BY THE AUTHOR....

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 into English were made of numerous passages from the works of Confucius, Mencius, and Lao-Tsz. Having surveyed briefly those fertile fields of thought, we passed, by a natural transition, into the delectable Buddhist realm. Som

The Diamond Sutra is one of the most valued and widely read philosophical works in Buddhist literature. It is very popular amongst ardent Buddhists in China, and excepting the Lotus of the Good Law , and the Leng-Yen-Ching , 1 perhaps no other Sutra ascribed to Buddha is regarded by the Chinese with so great esteem. In Japan, The Diamond Sutra appears to be perused extensively by what Max Müller 2 termed the Shin-Gon sect, founded by Ko-Bo, a disciple of the renowned pilgrim Hiuen-Tsang, about t

[Chapter 1] Thus have I heard 1 concerning our Lord Buddha:— Upon a memorable occasion, the Lord Buddha 2 sojourned in the kingdom of Shravasti, 3 lodging in the grove of Jeta, 4 a park within the imperial domain, which Jeta, the heir-apparent, bestowed upon Sutana, 5 a benevolent Minister of State, renowned for his charities and benefactions. With the Lord Buddha, there were assembled together twelve hundred and fifty mendicant disciples, 6 all of whom had attained to eminent degrees of spiritu