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The Diamond Sutra (''Vajracchedika-prajñāpāramitā-sūtra''), "The Perfection of Wisdom Sutra that Cuts like a Thunderbolt," is a short Mahayana Sutra of the Perfection Of Wisdom genre, which teaches the practice of the avoidance of abiding in extremes of mental attachment. A copy of the Diamond Sutra, found sealed in a cave in China in the early 20th Century , is the oldest known dated printed Book , with a printed date of 868 CE . Since it can be read in approximately forty minutes, the Diamond Sutra is often memorized and chanted in Buddhist monasteries. This sutra has retained a high degree of popularity in the ." Copy]] There is a )''. This is about 587 years before the Gutenberg Bible . EXTERNAL LINKS
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