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Heart Sutra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Heart of Perfect Wisdom Sutra or Heart Sutra or Essence of Wisdom Sutra (Sanskrit: प्रज्ञापारमिताहृदय Prajñāpāramitā Hṛdaya ) (the word sutra is not present in known Sanskrit manuscripts...
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I THE ; HEART SUTRA; ... I went on and on in Hardcore Zen about the Heart Sutra. For those who don't have the book, the Heart Sutra is a short poetic piece written fairly early on in the history of Buddhism -- though probably a few hundred years after Buddha himself died -- which encapsulates most of what has come to be...
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The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom ... The Blessed One was staying in Rajagrha at Vulture Peak along with a great community of monks and great community of bodhisattvas, and at that time, the Blessed One fully entered the meditative concentration on the varieties of phenomena called the Appearance of the Profound.
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Heart Sutra of Wisdom ... Therefore it should be known that the Heart Sutra of Wisdom is the great Mantra,--it is the Great Light-giving Mantra, the most excellent Mantra, the peerless Mantra, capable of allaying all suffering; it is truth because it not in error.
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Modern English version ... Edward Conze ( 1959) Buddhist Scriptures; Penguin pp162-164; Mu Soeng Sunim (1991) Heart Sutra: Ancient Buddhist Wisdom in the Light of Quantum Reality; Primary Point Press; D T Suzuki in B L Suzuki (1981) Mahayana Buddhism;
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Listen to this Chant in RealAudio ... Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, practicing deep prajna paramita, clearly saw that all five skandhas are empty, transforming all suffering and distress. ... Shariputra, form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form. Form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form.
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The title of The Heart Sutra appears to refer to the use of perfect wisdom (prajnaparamita) to cleanse error from the heart (hridaya). There are numerous variations of the sutra in Sanskrit and many other classical, Asian languages.
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