The Vajracchedika. The cutting-edge of wisdom, on emptiness and the bodhisattva path.
The Perfection of Wisdom that cuts like a diamond. The world's oldest dated printed book (868 CE, found at Dunhuang). The defining scripture of the Chan/Zen school.
Emptiness is the absence in all phenomena of independent, intrinsic existence. It is not nothingness but the positive recognition that everything arises in dependence on other things — the deepest reading of the Buddha's teaching.
The Great Vehicle — the movement that reframed the Buddhist goal from individual liberation as an arahant to the universal awakening of all beings as a bodhisattva, and reframed the metaphysical ground from analysis of dharmas to the emptiness (sunyata) of all phenomena.
