The heart sutra : the womb of Buddhas / translated from the Sanskrit with a commentary by Red Pine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Red Pine, 1943-

Standardized Title:

Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Prajñāpāramitā. Hr̥daya. English

Language:

English

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Prajñāpāramitā. Hr̥daya--Commentaries.

Tripiṭaka.

Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Prajñāpāramitā. Hr̥daya.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

201 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Shoemaker Hoard : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2004.

Summary:

The short text of The Heart Sutra is Buddhism in a nutshell. It has had the most profound and wide-reaching influence of any text in Buddhism. Its full title, Prajna Paramita Hrdaya Sutra, "The Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom," explains that this sutra contains the essence of the Buddha's teaching, the core of perfect enlightenment. It is the source of the famous and puzzling declaration, "form is emptiness, emptiness is form." For this new translation into English, Red Pine, award-winning translator of Chinese poetry and religious texts, has utilized various Sanskrit and Chinese versions, refining the teachings of dozens of ancient teachers together with his own commentary to offer a profound word-for-word explication. The result is a wise book of deep teaching destined to become the standard edition of this timeless statement of Mahayana truth.

Contents:

Prajnaparamita

Abhidharma in the light of Prajnaparamita

The Bodhisattva path

The womb of Buddhas.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1593760094

OCLC:

55228681