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The '''Vajra Cutter Sutra''' (aka Diamond Sutra) (Skt. ''Vajracchedikā-prajñāpāramitā-sūtra'', Tib. འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཅོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ, ''pakpa sherab kyi parol tu chinpa dorje chöpa shyé jawa tekpa chenpö do'',  [[Wyl.]] ''’phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa rdo rje gcod pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo'') ([[Toh]] 16)  is a popular [[Prajnaparamita]] [[sutra]].

==Famous Quotes==
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{{:Quotations: Diamond Cutter Sutra: Like a star, hallucination...}}

==Early Translations==
*Chinese translation, ca. AD 400 by Kumārajīva
*Chinese translation in the 7th century by Xuanzang
*Tibetan translation in the 9th century by Śīlendrabodhi and [[Yeshé Dé]]

==English Translations==
*Gelong Thubten Tsultrim (George Churinoff), ''The Exalted Mahayana Sutra on the Wisdom Gone Beyond Called the Vajra Cutter'' (based on the Tibetan Lhasa Zhol printing), FPMT, 2002 [http://www.fpmt.org/teachers/zopa/advice/pdf/vajracutter_eng.pdf Available online here]
*Paul Harrison, 'Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā: A New English Translation of the Sanskrit Text Based on Two Manuscripts from Greater Gandhāra', contained in Jens Braarvig, Paul Harrison, Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Kazunobu Matsuda & Lore Sander, eds., ''Buddhist Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection'', Hermes (Oslo 2006)
*Gregory Schopen, 'The Manuscript of the Vajracchedika Found at Gilgit: An Annotated Transcription and Translation' in Luis O. Gómez and Jonathan A. Silk (ed.s), ''Studies in the Literature of the Great Vehicle: Three Mahāyāna Buddhist Texts''

==Notes==
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==Further Reading==
*Thich Nhat Hanh, ''The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion: Commentaries on the Prajñaparamita Diamond Sutra'' (Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1992)
*Edward Conze, ''The Prajñāpāramitā Literature'' (1960)

==External Links==
*[https://www2.hf.uio.no/polyglotta/index.php?page=volume&library=TLB&vid=11 Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā at Thesaurus Literaturae Buddhicae]

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