Note 2 — THE DIAMOND SUTRA

“Subhuti asked Buddha: World-honoured One! what is this you say, that Bodhisatwas cannot be said to appreciate reward? ‘Subhuti, the reward which a Bodhisatwa enjoys ought to be connected with no covetous desire; this is what I mean by non-appreciation of reward.’”—Kin-Kong-King. Beal.

This passage, concluding the twenty-eighth section of The Diamond Sutra, not being incorporated in the translation of The Vagrakkhedika by Max Müller, may be suggestive of a noteworthy interpolation in the Chinese text, or is it a probable lacuna in the Sanscrit MSS.?