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| • | The Heart of Perfect Wisdom Sutra or Heart Sutra (Sanskrit: Prajñāpāramitā Hridaya Sūtra, Chinese: 般若波羅蜜多心經, Buorebuoluomituo Xinjing) is a well known Mahāyāna Buddhist sutra. The Heart Sutra comes from the 3rd of Conze's four periods in the development of the Perfection of Wisdom literature. It is a very much contracted presentation of the ideas of the perfection of wisdom tradition which had ballooned up to 100,000 lines. Along with the Diamond Sutra the Heart Sutra is the main representative of this period, although because it contains a mantra (sometimes erroneously called a dharani) it does overlap with the last, Tantric phase of development. The study of the Heart Sutra is particularly emphasized in East Asian Buddhism. Its Chinese version is frequently chanted (in the local pronunciation) by the Zen sects during ceremonies in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. It is also significant to the Shingon Buddhist school in Japan, whose founder Kukai wrote a commentary on it; and to the various Tibetan Buddhist schools. Some scholars believe that the Heart Sutra was originally composed in China and only later translated into Sanskrit. However this appears to be a minority position; most hold that the Sanskrit is the original, even though the Chinese version has undoubtedly been more influential. Source: [wikipedia: heart sutra] |
sutras:teachings
| Heart Sutra | ||
| an analysis of the heart sutra | ||
| Heart Sutra | ||
| with line-by-line commentary. | ||
| Heart Sutra | ||
| two different versions. | ||
| Prajna Paramita Sutra | ||
| line by line in japanese and english. | ||
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