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THE DIAMOND SUTRA

Buddha possess the eye of truth?"1 Subhuti assented, saying: "Honoured of the Worlds! the Lord Buddha truly possesses the eye of truth."

The Lord Buddha enquired of Subhuti, saying "What think you? Does the Lord Buddha possess the Buddhic eye?" Subhuti assented, saying: "Honoured of the Worlds! the Lord Buddha truly possesses the Buddhic eye.

The Chinese Fah-Yen-literally, Eye of the Law.

"The second of the three great treasures is called Dhamma, or in Singhalese, Dharmma. This word has various meanings, but is here to be understood in the sense of Truth. It is not unfrequently translated the Law,' but this interpretation gives an idea contrary to the entire genius of Buddhism. The Dharmma is therefore emphatically the Truth.”—Eastern Monachism. SPENCE HARDY.

2 "Supernatural talents, which the founder of Buddhism, Sakyamuni, is believed to have acquired in the night before he became Buddha, and which every Arhat takes posses- sion of by means of the fourth degree of Dhyana (abstract contemplation). Chinese texts reckon six such talents, while the Singhalese know only five. Sometimes, Most

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