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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Red pine's translation of the diamond sutra is, in my opinion, the best out there. Red pine is an outstanding translator and his commentaries on all of his buddhist sutras are researched so well. Porter aims at the heart of zen.

The diamond sutra is presented in an unsurpassed english translation. The book begins with a complete rendering of the sutra in spare, unadorned english. It is one of the few texts of whatever type that will repay endless study and which can transform...  Read More

The diamond sutra is one of the most influential buddhist sutras of all time. This sutra is central to the wisdom teachings of the mahayana. Theravada, school of buddhism, with its emphasis on the arahant and on individual enlightenment. In addition t...  Read More



Cons

Tried reading. It’s a very well thought out book,but super mundane and not to the point. This is simply people trying to take advantage of buddhists that don't know better.

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Highlights

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Quality


A solid structure foundation guide book to clearly explaining the history


This is a great book and the earliest printed book in the world much older than the guttenberg bible


The sutra itself is the diamond that in its radiance and strength cuts through and illuminates everything


Red pine has untangled much of the complicated history and the commentaries on the commentaries which can be as mind boggling a...  Read More

Price


For the price it has an immense amount of information and perhaps the power to free you from your misconceptions on life


His quotes from masters in his commentary were priceless as was his own interpretation for the most part

Packaging/appearance


Red pine unpacks the deep meaning within this stutra

Competitiveness


There is a great deal in the commentary and in the diamond sutra itself comparing the teaching of the sutra with its emphasis o...  Read More


Prices version is still a classic and better in terms of flow pines edition expresses clearly the difficult teachings of emptin...  Read More

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    red, chinese, most, buddhist and each.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 285 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 12 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Using a soccer metaphor this is perhaps the most difficult translation bill has undertaken


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    This book is to be used as a partner with a meditation practice


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Red pine does a masterful job parsing and explaining this great work but he also includes many other translators interpretations


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I have spent in sporadic time intervals of learning the original chinese version of “diamond sutra” at different channels


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It is difficult and hard to comprehend


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This is about intermediate level


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Each line is literally translated from sanskrit followed by a number of english translations of chinese translations


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This plus the authors commentaries results in a treasure for someone interested in understanding this sutra

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