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Sacred texts from the Buddhist tradition, spanning sutras, commentaries, and wisdom literature.

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  • Diamond SutraThe Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā — the Diamond-Cutter of Transcendent Wisdom — a Mahāyāna dialogue on emptiness, perception, and the dissolution of all conceptual supports; the text that ignited East Asian Zen and entered Western consciousness through Suzuki and the Beats.
  • Heart SutraThe Prajñāpāramitā Hṛdaya — the Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom — the most concentrated statement of Buddhist emptiness doctrine, the text that carried Buddhist thought into Western consciousness more completely than any other.
  • Introduction to BuddhismA critical introduction to Buddhism — from the Sramana wanderers of the Ganges plain to the ten thousand Buddhisms of the present day. Genealogical, scholarly, and situated within the Tianmu dharma lineage.
  • Lotus SutraThe Saddharma-puṇḍarīka — The Lotus of the True Law — the foundational Mahāyāna scripture of universal salvation, the teaching that all beings will attain Buddhahood, in H. Kern's 1884 translation.
  • Mountains and Waters SutraDōgen's vision of mountains walking and waters preaching — the only fascicle of the Shōbōgenzō bearing the title 'sutra.' Good Works Translation.
  • Tathagatagarbha SutraThe Buddha reveals, through nine similes, that all sentient beings possess the tathāgatagarbha — the embryo of awakening — hidden within them like gold in filth or a king in a lowly womb. Translated from the Chinese of Buddhabhadra (佛陀跋陀羅, 420 CE). Taishō Tripiṭaka Vol. 16, No. 666.

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