The Three Turnings of the Wheel

[Viveka]

@Satananda

I find it hard to tell myself that there’s nothing true in these texts on which they’re based. And yet, since I don’t take them seriously historically, I don’t really know how to approach them.

You may find this answer by Bhante Sujato of some use.

The Diamond cutter Sutra

Hi Mpac, Welcome! The Vajracchedika (Diamond Sutra) is part of the Parjnaparamita literature, a class of Mahayana Sutra that was composed around 500 years after the Buddha. While much of the Prajnaparamita is extremely long and verbose, the Diamond and Heart Sutras are quite short, crystallizing the essence of the Prajnaparamita philosophy into a brief and palatable form, hence their popularity. Historically, the Prajnaparamita arose as response to and critique of the Abhidharma. According…

Just coincidentally, this happened to be the very first question I ever asked on the forum