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Buddhist Wisdom: The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra

A landmark publication when it first appeared in 1958, Buddhist Wisdom offered Western readers a unique combination of both The Diamond Sutra — one of the cornerstone texts of Mahayana Buddhism — and The Heart Sutra, perhaps the most important of all Buddhist texts, in a single authoritative volume. With its appearance in the Vintage Spiritual Classic series, this definitive translation by the Western scholar of Buddhism Edward Conze is now available to a new generation of readers.

Subject
philosophy
Audience
adult
Length
short · 127 pages

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