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    Vajra Cutter Sutra English eBook
    Vajra Cutter Sutra English eBook
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    Vajra Cutter Sutra (The Exalted Mahayana Sutra on the Wisdom Gone Beyond called "The Vajra Cutter") contains teachings by the Buddha on the Perfection of Wisdom. Reciting this sutra purifies mountains of negative karma, clears away obstacles to the success of virtuous activities, and plants seeds to realize emptiness directly.

    Translated by Venerable George Churinoff.

    2007 Edition.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFPMT
    Release dateApr 9, 2018
    ISBN9781370041985
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    The FPMT is an organization devoted to preserving and spreading Mahayana Buddhism worldwide by creating opportunities to listen, reflect, meditate, practice and actualize the unmistaken teachings of the Buddha and based on that experience spreading the Dharma to sentient beings. We provide integrated education through which people’s minds and hearts can be transformed into their highest potential for the benefit of others, inspired by an attitude of universal responsibility and service. We are committed to creating harmonious environments and helping all beings develop their full potential of infinite wisdom and compassion. Our organization is based on the Buddhist tradition of Lama Tsongkhapa of Tibet as taught to us by our founder, Lama Thubten Yeshe and our spiritual director, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.

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      The Vajra Cutter Sūtra

      In the language of India:

      Ārya Vajracchedikā Nāma Prajñāpāramitā Mahāyāna Sūtra¹

      In Tibetan:

      'Phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa rdo rje gcod pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo

      In English:

      The Exalted Mahāyāna Sūtra on the Wisdom Gone Beyond called The Vajra² Cutter

      I prostrate to all the buddhas and bodhisattvas.

      Thus did I hear at one time. The Bhagavān was dwelling at Śhrāvastī, in the grove of Prince Jeta, in the garden of Anāthapiņdada,³ together with a great Sangha of bhikşhus of 1,250 bhikşhus and a great many bodhisattva mahāsattvas.

      Then, in the morning, having put on the lower and upper Dharma robes and carried the begging bowl, the Bhagavān entered the great city of Śhrāvastī to request alms. Then, having gone to the great city of Śhrāvastī to request alms, the Bhagavān afterwards enjoyed the alms food, and having performed the activity of food,⁴ since he had given up alms of later food,⁵ put away the begging bowl and upper robe. He washed his feet, sat upon the prepared cushion, and having assumed the cross-legged posture, straightened the body upright and placed mindfulness in front. Then, many bhikşhus approached to the place where the Bhagavān was and, having reached there, bowing their heads to the Bhagavān's feet, circumambulated three times and sat to one side.

      Also at that time, the venerable Subhūti, joining that very assembly, sat down. Then, the venerable Subhūti rose from the seat, placed the upper robe over one shoulder, set his right knee on the ground, bowed, joining the palms, toward the Bhagavān, and said this to the Bhagavān: "Bhagavān, the extent to which the Tathāgata Arhat Perfectly Enlightened Buddha has benefited the bodhisattva mahāsattvas with highest benefit, the extent to which the Tathāgata has entrusted the bodhisattva mahāsattvas with highest entrustment - Bhagavān, it is astonishing; Sugata⁶ it is astonishing. Bhagavān, how should one who has correctly entered the bodhisattva's vehicle abide, how practice, how control the mind?"

      That was said, and the Bhagavān said to the venerable Subhūti, Subhūti, well said, well said. Subhūti, it is so; it is so. The Tathāgata has benefited the bodhisattva mahāsattvas with the highest benefit. The Tathāgata has entrusted the bodhisattva mahāsattvas with the highest entrustment. Subhūti, therefore, listen and properly retain it in mind, and I will explain to you how one who has correctly entered the bodhisattva's vehicle should abide, how practice, how control the mind.

      Having replied, Bhagavān, so be it, the venerable Subhūti listened in accordance with the Bhagavān, and the Bhagavān said this: "Subhūti, here, one who has correctly entered the bodhisattva's vehicle should generate the mind [of enlightenment] thinking this: 'As many as are included in the category of sentient being - born from egg, born from the womb, born from heat and moisture, born miraculously; with form, without form, with discrimination, without discrimination, without discrimination but not without [subtle] discrimination - the realm of sentient beings, as many as are designated by imputation as sentient beings, all those I shall cause to pass completely beyond sorrow into the realm of nirvana without remainder of the aggregates. Although limitless sentient beings have thus been caused to pass completely beyond sorrow, no sentient being whatsoever has been caused to pass completely beyond sorrow.'

      "Why is that? Subhūti, because if a bodhisattva

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