The English translation of Daehaeng Kun Sunim’s Diamond Sutra is out!! We’ve been working on it for several years, and it’s finally ready! And, we were lucky in that we got a great designer to do the layout. It’s 328 pages, hardcover, color printing, with a sewn binding. May its energy spread far and wide.
We tried this last year, but ran into a problem with the printing. While we waited for the imported paper we needed, we took another look at it and changed a few things that we thought could be just a little bit better.
From the Afterword:
Seon Master Daehaeng’s edition of the Diamond Sutra changes you. You won’t notice it at first, but it does. It’s a conversation between two people who have already tasted this nondual whole, and even when the conversation is beyond your perspective, it still soaks in.
When we sat down to translate this into English, we thought it might take us a year, maybe two at the outside. That was nine years and twenty-four drafts ago! Every time we finished a draft, we felt like we’d done a great job, that we had learned much as we reflected on the Korean text and discussed its implications and how best to express those in English. And we were changed. It was subtle, but our outlook and understanding of the world shifted. So that when we sat down for what we thought was the final review of our translation, we started finding more nuances and ideas that required extensive rewrites of the English. And in those discussions and inward reflections on the meaning, we were further changed. Again and again this happened, for twenty-four drafts.
Click on the pages below to get a good view of the interior.
Ordering:
If you live in Korea, you can buy this directly at Hanmaum Seon Centers or the Kyobo bookstore. The Anyang Hanmaum Center has them right now, and the branches will have them in the next two weeks. They’re W25,000, or US $25 for overseas orders, plus shipping.
The Kyobo Bookstore just got them in stock (last night!), and should be shipping to Korean addresses as soon as the Lunar New Year holiday is over.
For overseas orders, email us at onemind@hanmaum.org, and we’ll figure out what the shipping will be. For overseas orders, we’ll be using Paypal as our primary method for payments. If that doesn’t work, though, let us know and we’ll figure out another way.
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