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the heart- sutra 1• !!! II !!! II !!! Ill !!! Ill !! 1• !!! II !!! Ill the heart- sutra THE WOMB OF BUDDHAS Translation and Commentary by RED PINE SHOEMAKER & HOARD WASHINGTON, D.C. Copyright© 2004 by Red Pine All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or repro duced in any mannerwhatsoeverwithoutwritten permission from the Publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tripi taka. Si.itrapitaka. Prajtuiparamita. Hridaya. English. The heart sutra: the womb of Buddhas I translated from the Sanskrit with a commentary by Red Pine. p.cm. ISBN 1-59376-074-4 1. Tripi taka. Si.itrapitaka. Prajfiaparamita. Hridaya Commentaries. I. Pine, Red. II. Title. BQ!962.E5 P56 2004 294.3'85-dc22 2004011666 Text and jacket design by Gopa & Ted2, Inc. Jacket art: Qgi Ying, Chinese, Ming dynasty, 1494/5-1552. Chao Mengju Writing the Buddhist 'WearF (Hridaya) Sutra in Exchange for Tea. Handscroll, ink and color on paper. ©The Cleveland Museum of Art. John L. Severence Fund. Map on page 19 designed by Molly O'Halloran. Frontispiece: A bas relief carved from marble in 1956 to replace an obliterated earlier eleventh century version at Lumbini, where Shakyamuni was born. Printed in the United States ofA merica Shoemaker & Hoard A Division of Avalon Publishing Group Inc. Distributed by Publishers Group West 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents The Heart Sutra 2 Introduction 5 The Heart Sutra: Prajnaparamita Hridaya Sutran 29 Part One: Prajnaparamita 41 Part Two: Abhidharma in the Light ofP rajnaparamita 97 Part Three: The Bodhisattva Path 129 Part Four: The Womb ofB uddhas 145 Names, Terms, and Texts 161 The Heart Sutra: The Longer Version 199 The Heart Sutra The Heart Sutra 1. The nobleAvalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, while practicing the deep practice ofPrajnaparamita, looked upon the Five Skandhas and seeing they were empty of self-existence, 5 said, "Here, Shariputra, form is emptiness, emptiness is form; emptiness is no~ separate from form, form is not separate from emptiness; whatever is form is emptiness, whatever is emptiness is form. The same holds for sensation and perception, memory and consciousness. to Here, Shariputra, all dharmas are defined by emptiness not birth or destruction, purity or defilement, completeness or deficiency. Therefore, Shariputra, in emptiness there is no form, no sensation, no perception, no memory and no consciousness; no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body and no mind; 15 no shape, no sound, no smell, no taste, no feeling and no thought; ·""" no element of perception, from eye to conceptual consciousness; no causal link, from ignorance to old age and death, and no end of causal link, from ignorance to old age and death; no suffering, no source, no relief, no path; 20 no knowledge, no attainment and no non-attainment. Therefore, Shariputra, without attainment, bodhisattavas take refuge in Prajnaparamita and live without walls of the mind. Without walls of the mind and thus without fears, 25 they see through delusions and finally nirvana. All buddhas past, present and future also take refuge in Prajnaparamita and realize unexcelled, perfect enlightenment. You should therefore know the great mantra ofPrajnaparamita, 30 the mantra of great magic, the unexcelled mantra, the mantra equal to the unequalled, which heals all suffering and is true, not false, the mantra in Prajnaparamita spoken thus: <Gate gate, paragate, parasangate, bodhi svaha."'

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