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“Stay in this world to transcend it.”

‘Good friends, since ancient times, this Dharma teaching of ours, both its instantaneous and gradual versions, had proclaimed “no idea” as its doctrine, “no form” as its body, and “no attatchment” as its foundation.’

‘The text was originally discovered in 1900 by a monk in Dunhuang, China, an old outpost of the Silk Road on the edge of the Gobi Desert. The Diamond Sutra, a Sanskrit text translated into Chinese, was one of 40,000 scrolls and documents hidden in “The Cave of a Thousand Buddhas,” a secret library sealed up around the year 1,000 when the area was threatened by a neighboring kingdom.’

De Diamantsoetra is het oudste geprinte boek ter wereld, maar liefst 1.157 jaar oud!