Heart Sutra Explained

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Heart Sutra Explained
By: Lopez, Donald S., Jr.

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Author: Lopez, Donald S., Jr.
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ISBN: 887065902

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Indian and Tibetan Commentaries

Renowned for its declaration of the perfection of wisdom, the "Heart Sutra" is the most famous of Buddhist scriptures. The author draws on previously unexamined commentaries, preserved only in Tibetan, to investigate the meanings derived from and invested into the "Sutra" during the later period of Indian Buddhism.
The "Heart Sutra Explained" offers new insights of "emptiness and form," and on the mantra, "gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha," and on the synthesis of Madhyamika, Yogacara, and tantric thought that characterized the final period of Buddhism in India. It also includes complete translations of two nineteenth-century Tibetan commentaries demonstrating the selective appropriation of Indian sources.

The Heart Sutra Explained, Donald S. Lopez, Jr., SUNY Press, Paperback, 230 pages, $25.95

Donald S Lopez is professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Acknowledgements 1

Introduction 3

Indian Commentaries

The Sutra 19

The Title 21

The Prologue 33

The Question and the Answer 49

Form is Emptiness; Emptiness is Form 57

The Negations and Enlightenment 95

The Mantra 109

The Epilogue 121

The Structure of the Sutra and the Structure of the Path 123

Tibetan Commentaries

Commentary on the Heart Sutra, Jewel Light Illuminating the Meaning 139

An Explanation of the Heart Sutra Mantra, Illuminating the Hidden Meaning 161

Notes 187

Selected Bibliography 215

Index 227

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