Thank you for your merit of explanation sharing and translation.

The great merit that the sutra speaks of repeatedly that can be gained from memorizing, propagating, etc. the sutra itself is most likely motivated by the desire to preserve the actual teaching of the sutra (which is clearly about transcendence) in an era before mass publication was possible. In that connection it is commonly believed that The Diamond Sutra was the first book to be printed in the history of the world (albeit by wood block printing).

Has the translation been finished and published? I don't see it listed as a publication currently for sale by either Stanford at the link provided, or at Amazon. It's 2021 November now, I'm curious about that version, as I've read Red Pine's and a couple others, and with something that old, the use of any term in the text that can be more clearly matched to it's original meaning, would be very interesting.

I definitely agree with the issues of some translations of the diamond sutra. I have one copy in on my shelf that is almost impossible to extrapolate any meaning at all. That being said you have to be a highly trained, highly educated priest to translate sutras from one language to another. Even though some translations are poor if one knows what one is doing the meaning of the diamond sutra is pretty clear.

His is an intellectual pursuit of something unknowable by the thinking mind. You can't know it, but you can be it, at ease in your true nature.

At 1:24, you said the versions used in East Asia were translated from English? Did Kamarajiva and Xuanzang did it between 400-662AD??

How does one get to read the new translation?

Where can you hear this sutra, there used to be a reading?

Just dont Council of Nicaea the translation.

No this not about the Golden Light Sutra, but the Diamond Sutra. They are not the same. Please amend your title so that people are not misled.Thanks. _/\_

Excellent vid and gives good insight as to what is involved in quality scholarship !

This video proves the Buddhas first truth....

I look forward to reading this translation, has it been completed? If so, where can I find a copy? Thanks

The suttra is not about emptiness? I don't understand what he was saying, because these interpretations are more than a thousand years old.

Because of Paul I lived with an old Tibetan Abbot for 12 years [in New Zealand]. Paul is very able in many Asian languages & philosophies I want to teach my daughter [1/2 Mongolian] about her own culture. There are archaic dictionaries of Tibetan, Sanskrit, Mongolian….are there modern ones? With English & Russian? Will I have to put it together myself?

This kind of discussion is really interesting. See, it states that there is a BUDDHA. Based on the texts

Dharmas and Sutras will be understood according to each persons innate wisdom and mind stream. Wisdom and knowledge are two "very" different things. A non-meditative mind will never be able to give the full meaning or nuances for this most sacred text. You already seem to be approaching this sacred sutra with the utmost arrogance. I hope I am wrong. My advice is for individuals to find an good Buddhist master to understand this sutra.

The ego wants things to make sense and be logical. This sutra along with the heart sutra smashes logic and intellectual understanding. There is nothing quite like it. It IS transformational but not if you don't practice the dharma. There is nothing like practice. Intellectual pursuits mean nothing to spiritual progress.

Wonderful: very pleased to hear someone has finally moved beyond the blind alleys. Looking forward to more sense from this gentleman.

That Seen In The Diamond There is that known to mind Not born of mind. Rather brought to mind, Having been known In a realm apart from space and time. That known in an unbounded paradigm, Which is no paradigm, And from an eternal perspective, Which is no perspective, When brought to mind, Thus limited by space and time, By perspective and paradigm, Casts but a shadow Of the dimensionless thing which is no thing, Of more dimensions than mind can conceive. The enlightened mind illuminates the shadow, Exposing and uncasting as illusory The diversions and paradoxes lurking within, Revealing the essence of that known in a higher realm. Yet word is contrived by unenlightened mind, Limited by the illusion of duality, Fettered by linear thought. Inapt to define that not thus confined. Hence when that unbound, by word is bound, Resurrected are the diversions and paradoxes Beheld in the shadow. Illusion created by illusion. Confoundingly real to the mind That does not know itself illusory. Thus, that the Bhagavan, the Sugata, The Tathagata, the Arhan, Limited by word, impart his knowing; He tells then untells. He speaks then unspeaks. He declares then undeclares That seen in the shadow. That the impartee put it to mind, Thence discern the essence.

A common mistake in the old translation, is the lack of specification regarding the word "Dharma".They do not make clear in the different Chapters when "Dharma" means "Law" or "Phenomena".

the professor's left hand pointer finger is half sized perhaps from an accident or birth deffect lol! hah anyway i like all this ancient discovery projects lol it remind me of Indiana Jones and the like...