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Pure Land Buddhism. v. t. e. 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."
Inside, during the repentance ceremony, eleven monks invoque the Bodhisattva and repeat the Eleven-Faced Avalokitesvara Heart Dharani Sutra for several hours, six times a day. The text introduces the heart dharani of the Bodhisattva, Avalokitesvara, as the following lines, translated by Prof. Abe indicate: [3] 世尊我此神咒有大威力。
Siddhaṃ script. Siddhaṃ (also Siddhāṃ[ 7 ]), also known in its later evolved form as Siddhamātṛkā, [ 8 ] is a medieval Brahmic abugida, derived from the Gupta script and ancestral to the Nāgarī, Eastern Nagari, Tirhuta, Odia and Nepalese scripts. [ 9 ] The word Siddhaṃ means "accomplished" or "perfected" in Sanskrit.
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
It first appeared in the Mahayana Kāraṇḍavyūhasūtra, where it is also referred to as the sadaksara (Sanskrit: षडक्षर, six syllabled) and the paramahrdaya, or "innermost heart" of Avalokiteshvara. [2] In this text, the mantra is seen as the condensed form of all Buddhist teachings. [3]
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.
The following is a version of the dhāraṇī attributed to Amoghavajra (T. 1113b) which is mostly similar to that of Bhagavaddharma, albeit with a different way of dividing the text and an accompanying Sanskrit version written in Siddhaṃ script (Romanized; Sanskrit transliterated as written in the original).
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]