Heart Sutra般若波羅蜜多心經
- Date
- 7th century
- Also called
- Prajñāpāramitā Hṛdaya
- Language
- Classical Chinese
- Catalogue
- Taishō T.251
A few hundred characters on emptiness, in Xuanzang’s translation; chanted in Sōtō services and, the Sōtō school says, by nearly all Buddhist groups in Japan.
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Sources
- Xuanzang 玄奘 (trans.), Bore boluomiduo xin jing 般若波羅蜜多心經 (Heart Sutra), Xuanzang's translation · link
- Zhisheng 智昇, Kaiyuan shijiao lu 開元釋教錄 (730) · link
- Sōtōshū Shūmuchō, Soto School Scriptures for Daily Services and Practice · link
- Sōtōshū Shūmuchō, What are the sutras? · link
- William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous, A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms (1937) · link
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