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- "Uh—name 'em all?" he said, as if she had asked him to recite the Kama Sutra in the original Sanskrit.† (source)
- I listened to Granny chanting sutras, which she did every night before going to bed.† (source)
- She recited sutras for hours each day, especially the Diamond Sutra.† (source)
- The fact is, if you want to know, I can't help thinking you'd make a damn site better-adjusted actor if Seymour and I hadn't thrown in the Upanishads and the Diamond Sutra and Eckhart and all our other old loves with the rest of your recommended home reading when you were small.† (source)
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Of minimal syllabary, unambiguous, pithy, comprehensive,
non-redundant, and without flaw: who knows the sutra knows it to be thus. (source)
- Once convinced of her purity, they enticed her to visit the afterworld to recite the Diamond Sutra.† (source)
- Just like her husband, he demanded that she recite the Diamond Sutra.† (source)
- 'You continue to recite the Diamond Sutra,' he said.† (source)
- She recited sutras for hours each day, especially the Diamond Sutra.† (source)
- Services were conducted for them at the Hoko-ji Temple in Senzuru, and in addition the women in Yoroido have chanted sutras.† (source)
- I was surprised too to see Mother spending money almost unrestrainedly, making plans for sutras to be chanted on Granny's behalf at the Chionin Temple, purchasing lotus-bud arrangements from the undertaker—all of it right in the midst of the Great Depression.† (source)
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- Wife Wang knew she was doomed for sleeping with her husband, but when he tested her knowledge of the Diamond Sutra and found that she could recite it without flaw, he gave her a room of her own so she could remain celibate for the rest of their married life.† (source)
- I contemplated religious sutras, practiced cleansing rituals, and hoped to renounce the polluting aspects of bed business.† (source)
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