Orsa Adamantis

Orsa Adamantis (Sanscritice वज्रच्छेदिकाप्रज्ञापारमितासूत्र Vajracchedikā-prajñāpāramitā-sūtra ; Mandarinice 金剛般若波羅蜜多經 / 金刚般若波罗蜜经, pinyin jīngāng bōrěbōluómìduō jīng ; Iaponice Kongō hannya haramitsu kyō) sunt Mahāyāna (Buddhistica) generis Prajñāpāramitā ('Sapientiae Perfectae') orsa, quae usus non manendi et seiunctionis penitus comprobant. Quae praeterea sunt unum ex operibus philosophicis religiosisque auctoritatis gravissimis in Asia Orientali, ac quidem in Buddhismo Zen res devotionis studiique maximi momenti.

Exemplar verborum Sinicorum Orsorum Adamantis, quod inter manuscripta Dunhuang anno 1907 a Marco Aurelio Stein Equite repertum est, ex die 11 Maii 868 exstat.Soeng 2000:58. Qui liber, secundum Bibliothecam Britannicam, est "primus libri impressi superstes integer cui dies ascribitur."Anglice: "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book.".

Impressio stipitis lignei apud Dunhuang reperta
Bibliotheca Britannica exemplar impressionis stipitis lignei conservat, quod, quamquam non primum impressionis stipite ligneo exemplum, est primum exemplum cui est dies notus. Libro est designatio maturitatis magnae, quod significare habetur artem impressionis stipite ligneo diutissime in Sinis notum esse.

Exemplar exstans est volumen circa quinque metra longum, quod archaeologus Marcus Aurelius Stein Eques emit anno 1907 in Specu Mogao, in loco muro cincto prope Dunhuang in Sinis boreoccidentalibus, in Specu Milium Buddharum appellatus, de monacho qui specum custodiebat. Colophon, in fine interiori, legitur: Ut universe libereque distribuatur a Wang Jie pro eius duobus parentibus die tredecimo lunae quartae anni noni Xiantong reverenter factus,"Anglice: "Reverently made for universal free distribution by Wang Jie on behalf of his two parents on the 13th of the 4th moon of the 9th year of Xiantong." qui dies erat 11 Maii 868.

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Notae

Bibliographia
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Poppe, Nicholas. 1971. The Diamond Sutra, Three Mongolian Version of the Vajracchedikā-prajñāpāramitā: Texts, Translation, Notes and Glossary. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
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Wood, Frances, et Mark Barnard. 2010. The Diamond Sutra: The story of the world's earliest dated printed book. Londinii: British Library.
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Nexus externi

Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, in Anglicum comversus. Lapis Lazuli Texts.
Price, A. F., et Wong Mou-Lam. Diamond Sutra, in Anglicum conversus
The Diamond of Perfect Wisdom Sutra, in Anglicum conversus. Chung Tai Translation Committee.
Romanized Sanskrit et Devanagari. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon.
Editio multilingualis Vajracchedikā. Bibliotheca Polyglotta.

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