The Diamond Sutra

The Diamond Sutra is one of the most valued and widely read philosophical works in Buddhist literature. It is very popular amongst ardent Buddhists in China, and excepting the Lotus of the Good Law, and the Leng-Yen-Ching,1 perhaps no other Sutra ascribed to Buddha is regarded by the Chinese with so great esteem.

In Japan, The Diamond Sutra appears to be perused extensively by what Max Müller2 termed the Shin-Gon sect, founded by Ko-Bo, a disciple of the renowned pilgrim Hiuen-Tsang, about the year 816 a.d.