#heartsutra

A bit of Buddhist inside-baseball, perhaps.

https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/the-heart-and-sandokai/

#Buddhism #Sandokai #HeartSutra #weblog

New Heart Sutra translation by Thich Nhat Hanh

https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/letters/thich-nhat-hanh-new-heart-sutra-translation

#HeartSutra

Wait... is the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra putting

> "form is not one thing and emptiness another"

**before**

> "form is emptiness"

as opposed to the Heart Sutra, having "form is emptiness" first ?

I find that fascinating for some reason.

(Yes, I'm aware of Nattier's paper)

#Buddhism #PrajnaParamita #Sutra #HeartSutra

Omamori #talisman from Sanjūsangendō Temple (三十三間堂) in #Kyoto containing the #HeartSutra, #Japan.
#BuddhistArt #Buddhism

In the #heartsutra I feel one tends to overlook the full lists and their implications.

One look at "form is empty, emptiness is form" and we let it sink in.

But this: "and (other aggregates) are also like this" is overlooked.

If instead one looks further, it means (as an example):
"consciousness is empty"
"emptiness is consciousness"
"consciousness is not one thing and emptiness another"

This is much much harder to let sink in.

I'm still trying.

#ZenBuddhism #buddhism #prajnaparamita

Lately I’ve been talking a lot about home Buddhist practice, including home Buddhist services and such. These are things that devour lay-Buddhists often (myself included), but then I realized I never talked about making one’s own sutra book. There are a couple reasons why one might make their own. #buddhism #sutra #buddhistpractice #buddhistpath #LotusSutra #heartsutra #chanting #BuddhistChanting #BuddhistCanon #palicanon

http://nembutsu.cc/2024/01/29/make-your-own-buddhist-sutra-book/

Posted about #books and especially about Red Pine's little book on the Heart Sutra. Also that joke about dualism.

Bodhi, svaha! https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/01/28/bodhi-svaha/

#buddhism #zen #philosophy #words #HeartSutra

#Japanese copy of the #HeartSutra. #Heian period, ca. 1175, Chuson-ji. Indigo paper, gold ink.
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今日もお勤めしました。（864日 ,869返）#heartsutra #般若365 https://goo.gl/Yzcnfp

"Wisdom and delusion basically aren't different. This shore and the other shore essentially have the same source. But because someone thinks the body and the mind exists, we say they are deluded and they dwell on this shore. And because someone doesn't think the body and the mind exist, we say they are wise and they dwell on the other shore." - Chen-k'o, Supplement to the Tripitaka, ca. 1595. #heartsutra #zen #buddhism

I recommend this lecture by Sarah Mattice https://youtu.be/vxcfIuoHj1Q and her book Exploring the Heart Sutra. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498599405/Exploring-the-Heart-Sutra

Sarah didn't know Huifeng (2014) or any of my work when she published this. Which I would normally treat as a fatal error. Still her approach has a great deal to recommend it and is a worthwhile fresh take: at some point I'd like to see a synthesis of Mattice's work with mine.

#buddhiststudies #heartsutra #buddhism

"Given that the dhāraṇī was likely copied from the Tuóluóní jí jīng «陀羅尼集經» (T 901), we should think of the dhāraṇī in Hṛd as a *reconstruction* of the Sanskrit, or as also being a back translation."

forthcoming article

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When they discover that I study the Heart Sutra, people often tell me they enjoy Red Pine's translation and commentary.

While the many egregious errors and untruths in that book would be burdensome to recount, at one point (p 137) he comes so hilariously unstuck in his inept attempts at grammatical analysis that I wrote a blog post about it.

http://jayarava.blogspot.com/2017/10/red-pines-vagaries-of-sanskrit-grammar.html

#HeartSutra #RedPine
#grammar #sanskrit #buddhism

My first article on the Heart Sutra

(2015). "Heart Murmurs: Some Problems with Conze’s Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya." Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 8, 28-48. http://jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/article/view/104

With pañcaskandhās (nominative plural case), vyava√lok "to examine" has no object. And this makes no sense. Solution is add anusvāra (to give accusative case) > vyavalokayati sma pañcaskandhāṃs "[he] examined the five skandhas".

#Buddhiststudies #buddhism #HeartSutra

My comprehensive review of the issue of the Chinese origins of the Heart Sutra. https://philpapers.org/rec/ATTTCO-4

"The Chinese Origins of the Heart Sutra Revisited: A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese and Sanskrit Texts."
Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 44:13-52 (2021)

#Buddhiststudies #Buddhism #HeartSutra

@serenissimaj I do have to regularly state that I only cover English-language scholarship. Because in my field, Japanese scholars are seen as making a more significant contribution and they seldom write in English. #Buddhiststudies #heartsutra

@theautisticcoach @jayarava
I found it in a pinned post by jayarava’s:
https://tricycle.org/magazine/heart-sutra-history/

It’s a highly detailed article about a meditation/awareness (or maybe I should say “beyond focussed awareness”?) practise. Anyway, I’m curious what feedback scholars like jayarava would have about my “hot take”.

#buddhism #heartsutra #prajnaparamita

I could wish that my article on the Heart Sutra in Tricycle Magazine had gained more traction. It's still there though... https://tricycle.org/magazine/heart-sutra-history/ #buddhism #heartsutra #prajnaparamita

This works for me as an explanation of #Buddhist views on no-self. Relatively speaking.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CkyYzmXA6VR/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

#buddhism #emptiness #heartsutra
(Photo of child in costume waving at self in mirror.)

NEW BOOK> My Heart Sutra: A World in 260 Characters by Frederik L. Schodt https://networks.h-net.org/node/6060/discussions/6518605/new-book-my-heart-sutra-world-260-characters-frederik-l-schodt #BuddhistStudies #HeartSutra