The Diamond Sutra, The Heart Sutra, The Sutra of Hui Neng: Three Key Prajnā Pārāmitā Texts from the Zen Tradition - Anonymous Audiobook
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These three sutras are the most important texts for the Chan (Chinese) and Zen (Japanese) Buddhist traditions, though they are very different in character and provenance. The Diamond Sutra (Vajracheddikā Prajña Pārāmitā Sutra in Sanskrit) has the distinction of being ‘the earliest complete survival of a dated (11 May 868) printed book’. It was found in the Dunhuang Caves in China in 1900.
The title, Diamond Cutter, outlines its purpose, which is to cut through ignorance to attain to perfect wisdom or ultimate reality. It is a relatively concise Mahāyāna text, using the Six Perfections (generosity, virtue, patience, spiritual vigour or energy, meditation and wisdom) to realise no-self and the emptiness of all phenomena.
Its origin is uncertain - even its date falls into a wide spectrum of somewhere between second and fifth centuries. The sutra is set in the context of a teaching given by the Buddha to the bhikkhu Subhuti who has asked for advice how to attain ‘supreme perfect enlightenment’. The translation used for this recording is by Wai-Tao. The Heart Sutra, another Mahāyāna text, is very different. It is short - barely 500 words - and is chanted, recited or read daily by many Buddhist communities across a wide range of traditions throughout the world.
It is placed in a teaching given by the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Avalokiteśvara to the bhikkhu Šariputra. Despite its brevity, it is rich in meaning and reference, covering a number of Buddhist formulations, including the five skandhas (form, feeling, perception, formation and consciousness) and the Four Noble Truths. The core message of the Sutra is ‘form is emptiness, emptiness is form’ - again the declaration that all phenomena are empty. Its origin (likely before sixth century) and even original language is unknown, scholars differing on whether it was first written in Sanskrit or Chinese.
The Nalanda translation is used here. The Sutra of Hui Neng is the longest of these three works, and is different again. It is a remarkable document, telling the history of the Sixth Chan Patriarch, Hui Neng (638-713), a semi-legendary teacher who, though uneducated and illiterate, gained enlightenment when accidentally hearing The Diamond Sutra being recited. Also called The Platform Sutra (Buddhist teachers in China traditionally preached from a podium) Hui Neng relates his history and his exegesis of The Diamond Sutra. In contrast to the two preceding works, The Sutra of Hui Neng is an unusually informal text, with the personality of the Sixth Patriarch coming across the intervening centuries with affecting immediacy. The translation is by Wong Mou-Lam. The three sutras are read with clarity and understanding by Ratnadhya.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 5/5
August 18th, 2020
Haru55, Thank you so much for this. I’ve never listened to any texts in the Buddhist tradition, beyond the lojongs in the Tibetan tradition. Do you know Chogyam Trungpa’s work? there are a couple of his books here on torrent central that are wonderful. I am eager also to hear what he says about meditation. Do you have any of his audible-only books, such as The Path is the Goal, or Training the Mind? If you have not encountered him, I think his wisdom would be compatible with a zen practice, if not the fact that he is a guru. It’s much less purely philosophical than the Dalai Lama. The Norman Fischer book you downloaded takes off from the Trungpa/ Pema Chodron work.
Many thanks for your generous downloadings of these spiritual texts
August 18th, 2020
You’re welcome, Appi. Yes, I Do know Chogyam Trungpa and there are some of his audiobooks here on ABB in case you haven’t spotted them already. Hopefully they are seeded so you can download them. I’ll keep on eye on his books as well; I think I might have the Tibetan Book of the Dead by the same author lying around somewhere. If I find it, I’ll upload it too.
Cheers!
August 19th, 2020
Yes, I downloaded both Cutting through Spiritual Materialism and The Path of Freedom, I think is the other. I’m finding them bracing and so smart. They make sense of things I otherwise can’t wrap my mind around. Yes, I think he translated the Book of the Dead.
August 19th, 2020
If you are interested in Zen check out Instant Zen by Master Foyan, trans. Thomas Cleary. Thanks for this amazing up. These are my three favorite Sutras in one pack!
January 19th, 2021
I know it is a long shot but some seeding would be most appreciated.
Thanks for the upload, Haru!
June 6th, 2021
I can’t for the life of me find any other audiobook of the Diamond Sutra (there is “The Diamond Cutter” audiobook which is available on Self-help Audiobook, but unfortunately it appears to be on the McMindfulness side of things), and this one seems to be the only one I’ve come across. Alas, no one seems to be seeding it. Haru55, any chance of re-seeding this torrent? I would be eternally grateful, as would others wanting to get a copy of it, I am sure.
September 13th, 2022
Please seed
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