The Vajracchedika Prajnaparamita Sutra

Commonly known as the Diamond Sutra, the Diamond Cutter Sutra, and the Vajra Prajña Paramita Sutra, the sutra reveals the wisdom that annihilates everything and allows the attainment of buddhahood.

“The Vajra Sutra destroys everything!”

This daunting statement—first proclaimed by the spiritual leader and lineage root guru of the True Buddha School, H.H. Living Buddha Lian Sheng— is earth-shattering! So why did he declare that the essence of the Vajra Sutra is to annihilate everything?

No “self”

No others

No living beings

No time and spatial dimensions

Living Buddha Lian Sheng challenges us to think beyond our ordinary mindset. What is good or bad? What is the true reality? The Vajra Sutra states that everything, whether good or bad, will be annihilated. Only the one who has reached a perfect understanding of the truth can explain its profundities.

This book is an English presentation of the Vajra Sutra Exposition given by the lineage root guru of True Buddha School, H.H. Living Buddha Lian Sheng (Grandmaster Sheng-Yen Lu), from July 24, 2021, to April 30, 2022, at the Seattle Leizang Temple (Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple) and Rainbow Temple in the state of Washington, U.S.A.