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The Heart Sūtra [note 1] is a popular sutra in Mahāyāna Buddhism. In Sanskrit, the title Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya translates as "The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom ". The Sutra famously states, "Form is emptiness ( śūnyatā ), emptiness is form."
The Heart of Transcendent Wisdom (Skt. prajñāpāramitā hṛdaya), commonly known as the Heart Sutra, is one of the most important texts within the Sanskrit Mahayana tradition.
The Other Shore. A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries. In September, 2014 Thich Nhat Hanh completed a profound, beautiful and radical new English translation of the Prajñaparamita Heart Sutra, one of the most important and well-known sutras in….
This brevity is underscored by its name - the Heart Sutra can be thought of as the figurative “heart” of the sutras concerned with explicating the emptiness of all phenomena.
The mantra of the perfection of wisdom is proclaimed as follows: [oṃ] gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhisvāhā. Śāriputra, a bodhisattva and great being should train in the profound perfection of wisdom in this way.”
The Heart Sutra is one of the best known, most chanted, of all sutras. It exists in a longer and a shorter form - the calligraphy here is of the shorter version. There are a number of standard commentaries on this sutra, which look at it from a variety of traditional view points.
The Heart Sutra as recited in the Triratna Buddhist Community The Bodhisattva of Compassion, When he meditated deeply, Saw the emptiness of all five skandhas And sundered the bonds that caused him suffering. Here then, Form is no other than emptiness, Emptiness no other than form. Form is only emptiness, Emptiness only form.
For this reason, know that the Great Mantra of the Perfection of Transcendent Wisdom is the Great Wisdom Mantra, the Unsurpassed Mantra, and the Unequaled Mantra. It extinguishes all suffering, and is true and real because it is not false. It is the Mantra proclaimed in the Perfection of Transcendent Wisdom.
Jan 15, 2020 · In September, 2014 Thich Nhat Hanh completed a profound, beautiful and radical new English translation of the Prajñaparamita Heart Sutra, one of the most important and well-known sutras in…
Jul 9, 2013 · The Heart Sutra itself describes the mantra as "Mahāmantro, mahā-vidyā mantro, ‘nuttara mantro samasama-mantraḥ" which Conze translates as "The great mantra, the mantra of great knowledge, the utmost mantra, the unequalled mantra, the allayer of all suffering".
