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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."
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 Diamond Sutra: Transforming the Way We Perceive the World: Wisdom Publications Translation of the Diamond Sūtra with commentary 2000 ISBN 978-0861711604: Edward Conze: Buddhist Wisdom: The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra: Random House The Diamond Sūtra and The Heart Sutra, along with commentaries on the texts and practices of Buddhism 2001
A subtitle to the sutra found in some sources is "the heart of the words of all the Buddhas" (一切佛語心 yiqiefo yuxin, Sanskrit: sarvabuddhapravacanahṛdaya). [ 2 ] The Laṅkāvatāra recounts a teaching primarily between Gautama Buddha and a bodhisattva named Mahāmati ("Great Wisdom").
To this were gradually added (3) material from the Abhidharma, (4) concessions to the "Buddhism of Faith" (referring to Pure Land references in the sūtra), and then (5) the expansion into the larger sūtras, their (6) contraction into the shorter sūtras (i.e. Diamond Sūtra, Heart Sūtra, down to the Prajñāpāramitā in One Letter), which ...
The Prajnaparamita Sutras and Madhyamaka emphasized the non-duality of form and emptiness: form is emptiness, emptiness is form, as the Heart Sutra says. [44] The idea that the ultimate reality is present in the daily world of relative reality fitted into the Chinese culture which emphasized the mundane world and society.
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 ...