filled with gifts and can bring about enlightenment. Section 32 (of the Chinese version) also ends with a four-line gatha: Paul Harrison's translation of the Sanskrit version states: Red Pine's translation about life showed that the text read: Dunhuang block print There is a woodblock-printed copy of the Diamond Sutra in the British Library which, although not the earliest example of block printing, is the earliest example which bears an actual date. The extant copy is in the form of a scroll about long. The archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein purchased it in 1907 in the walled-up Mogao Caves near Dunhuang in northwest China from a monk guarding the caves – known as the "Caves of the Thousand Buddhas". The colophon, at the inner end, reads: In 2010 UK writer and historian Frances Wood, head of the Chinese section at the British Library, Mark Barnard, conservator at the British Library, and Ken Seddon, professor of chemistry at Queen's University, Belfast, were involved in the restoration of its copy of the book. The British Library website allows readers to view the Diamond Sūtra in its entirety. Selected English translations See also Science and technology of the Tang Dynasty References Further reading Cole, Alan (2005). Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature, Berkeley: U Cal Press, pp. 160–196. For a close reading of the text's rhetoric, see chapter 4, entitled "Be All You Can't Be, and Other Gainful Losses in the Diamond Sutra." William Gemmell, transl. (1912). The Diamond Sutra, London: Trübner. Joyce Morgan and Conrad Walters (2011). Journeys on the Silk Road: a desert explorer, Buddha’s secret library, and the unearthing of the world’s oldest printed book, Picador Australia, . Agócs, Tamás (2000). The Diamondness of the Diamond Sutra. Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 53, (1/2), 65–77 External links Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra: English Translation, by Paul Harrison Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra: English Translation, Lapis Lazuli Texts The Diamond of Perfect Wisdom Sutra: English Translation, by Chung Tai Translation Committee Romanized Sanskrit and Devanagari of the Diamond Sutra in the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon. Multilingual edition of Vajracchedikā in the Bibliotheca Polyglotta Conserving the Diamond Sutra, IDPUKvideo (2013) Mahayana sutras British Library oriental manuscripts Chinese manuscripts 9th-century Chinese books 868 9th century in China Dunhuang manuscripts Public domain books Tang dynasty culture