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Recent Updates and Plans for 2024
Hello, everyone. First, apologies for the long hiatus from posting here at the Dharma Pearls blog. The translation project itself took a hiatus to attend to the task of migrating all of the project’s translations from the four Āgamas to SuttaCentral’s legacy html format. This work occupied our time from September to November last year. Continue reading
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Book Review: The Diamond Sutra (Red Pine)
Red Pine’s The Diamond Sutra: Text and Commentaries Translated from Sanskrit and Chinese is a book that I recommend to readers who want to explore the various Diamond Sutra translations and exegesis that remains untranslated today. In this book, Red Pine presents a translation of the sutra based on his studies of the Sanskrit and Continue reading
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Book Review: The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion (Thich Nhat Hanh)
The Diamond that Cuts through Illusion is Thich Nhat Hanh’s translation and commentary on the Diamond-Cutting Perfection of Wisdom Sutra, which was first published by Parallax Press in 1992. The English translation from Kumarajiva’s Chinese was led by Hahn with the help of Annabel Laity and Anh Huong Nguyen. Hahn’s commentary on the Sutra was Continue reading
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