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The Heart Sūtra[ a ] 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."
In concert and recordings, she performs the sung version of the Eleven-Faced Avalokiteśvara Heart dhāraṇī Sutra, in Sanskrit, but entitled Namo Ratna Great Compassion Mantra. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Imee Ooi is a Malaysian-Chinese singer, who has recorded the Eleven-Faced Avalokiteśvara Heart dhāraṇī Sutra in Sanskrit, but entitled Arya Ekadasa ...
The Heart Sutra with a Tibetan commentary 2001 Lopez, Donald S. Elaborations on Emptiness ISBN 0-691-00188-X: Princeton The Heart Sutra with eight complete Indian and Tibetan commentaries 1998 Lopez, Donald S. The Heart Sutra Explained ISBN 0-88706-590-2: SUNY The Heart Sutra with a summary of Indian commentaries 1987 Rabten, Geshe
The Heart Sutra also negates the 12 links of dependent origination: "There is no ignorance, no extinction of ignorance, up to and including no aging and death and no extinction of aging and death." [209] Some Mahāyāna sūtras present the insight into the non-arisen nature of dharmas as a great achievement of bodhisattvas.
A Siddhaṃ manuscript of the Heart Sutra. Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Siddham script evolved from the Gupta Brahmi script in the late 6th century CE. [1] Many Buddhist texts taken to China along the Silk Road were written using a version of the Siddhaṃ script. This continued to evolve, and minor variations are seen across time ...
The most significant and popular Mahayana sutras such as the Lotus Sutra, Heart Sutra and others prominently include dharani chapters. [71] [72] The dharanis are prominent in the Prajñāpāramitā Sutras wherein the Buddha "praises dharani incantation, along with the cultivation of samadhi, as virtuous activity of a bodhisattva", states ...
Sutra (Sanskrit: सूत्र, romanized: sūtra, lit. 'string, thread') [1] in Indian literary traditions refers to an aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly, a condensed manual or text. Sutras are a genre of ancient and medieval Indian texts found in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. [1][2]
In Buddhism, Avalokiteśvara (meaning "the lord who looks down", [ 1 ] IPA: / ˌʌvəloʊkɪˈteɪʃvərə / [ 2 ]), also known as Lokeśvara ("Lord of the World") and Chenrezig (in Tibetan), is a tenth-level bodhisattva associated with great compassion (mahakaruṇā). He is often associated with Amitabha Buddha. [ 3 ]