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Buddhist Wisdom: The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra
from Vintage
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 
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uninspiring 
The work of translation is notoriously difficult. Especially if the translator intends to make the work unreadable by adding sommentary after virutally every line. As a Buddhist, I was really hoping to see the work itself, and then read the commentary to explain points that were less than clear. Unfortunately, this work is almost a line by line back and forth between the actual work and the commentary. It was almost unreadable due to the proximity of the commentary to the text and definitely lacking, in... more info
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Heart & Diamond reviewed 
I am familiar with Edward Conze's translations and comments on the Diamond and Heart Sutras primarily through the 1958 edition of this work. First of all, these are scholarly translations and commentaries. The commentaries are logical and precise, as they need to be to get at the heart of the teaching, in particular, of the Heart Sutra. Conze states, correctly, that to understand the Heart Sutra one has to understand something about Abhidharma concepts. The Abhidharma texts represent early schools of... more info
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a review is not a review, therefore it is called a review
Manual of Zen Buddhism has a better translation of both these Sutras. I am also very appreciative of the Shambhala translations by Price and Mou-lam that doesn't have the Heart Sutra but has a translation of the Platform Sutra coupled with the Diamond Sutra. The problem I have with this translation is that after very much enjoying the Price/Mou-lam translation I thought it might be worth while to have a translation of the
Heart and Diamond in one volume. I had seen this translation so decided to look... more info
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Wisdom gone, gone beyond.
The Prajanparamita ("Perfection of Wisdom") consists of thirty-eight books composed between 100 B.C. and A.D. 600, including the Diamond and Heart Sutras, "two of the holiest of the holy" (p. xxviii) Buddhist scriptures. German translator Edward Conze first introduced these sutras to the English-speaking world in 1958. The Diamond and Heart Sutras "lead us to the very summit of existence," he writes. "Up there the air is rather rarified, and we are bound to feel somewhat dizzy at times" (p. 38). And like a... more info
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