Question

State an important charteric of the oldest Japanese book and diamond sutra

Answer 1

The Diamond Sutra is relatively short, only 6,000 words and is part of a larger canon of “sutras” or sacred texts in Mahayana Buddhism, the branch of Buddhism most common in China, Japan, Korea and southeast Asia. Many practitioners believe that the Mahayana Sutras were dictated directly by the Buddha, and The Diamond Sutra takes the form of a conversation between the Buddha’s pupil Subhati and his master.

Answer 2

Frontispiece of the Chinese Diamond Sūtra, the oldest known dated printed book in the world