The Heart Sutra is the most widely read, chanted, and copied text in East Asian Buddhism. Here Frederik L. Schodt explores his lifelong fascination with the sutra: its mesmerizing mantra, its ancient history, the “emptiness theory, and the way it is used around the world as a metaphysical tool to overcome chaos and confusion and reach a new understanding of reality–a perfection of wisdom. Schodt's journey takes him to caves in China, American beats declaiming poetry, speculations into the sutra's true origins, and even a robot Avalokiteśvara at a Kyoto temple.
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Frederik L. Schodt. My Heart Sutra
OTHER BOOKS BY FREDERIK L. SCHODT. ORIGINAL WORKS
SELECT TRANSLATIONS
This book is dedicated
Contents
Foreword
THE XUANZANG HEART SUTRA
THE OFFICIAL SŌTŌ ZEN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE HEART SUTRA. Heart of Great Perfect. Wisdom Sutra
1. My Mantra
RELIGION AND ME
A RESOLUTION
2. How I Met the Mantra
LISTENING TO THE MANTRA
A DEEPER LOOK
3. Seeking Context
SUTRA, STRUCTURE, AND LOGIC
4. Xuanzang
SEEKING THE TRUTH
TO INDIA AND BACK
TRIPIṬAKA MASTER AND HIS TRANSLATION
WISDOM PATH AND SUTRA TRANSLATION
5. Monkey
UNEARTHING A COMPLICATED HISTORY
6. An American Thesis
A DISRUPTIVE PERSPECTIVE
CONTROVERSY
REACTION IN JAPAN
A LIFE OF ITS OWN
7. Heart Sutra Land
SUTRA COPYING
CHANNELING THROUGH CALLIGRAPHY
XUANZANG IN JAPAN
SUTRA COPYING AT YAKUSHI-JI
8. The Metaphysical Can Opener
THE HEART SUTRA ROBOT
MODERN APPLICATIONS
HEART SUTRA BOOKS
A SEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING
9. New Life in a New World
THE HEART SUTRA IN ENGLISH
SUTRA COPYING IN THE WEST
A SUTRA WORTH STUDYING
Afterword
Endnotes
Select Bibliography
Index
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The Heart Sutra mantra thus remains a sonic bridge among diverse languages and cultures, one that has survived nearly intact for over 1,400 years. And it has survived because it is a mantra. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a mantra as something originally Sanskrit, and
A sacred text or passage, esp. one from the Vedas used as a prayer or incantation; a word or phrase from a sacred text repeated this way. Also, a holy name, for inward meditation.13
