The heart sutra
Subtitle: the womb of Buddhas
By: translation and commentary by Red Pine
Contributors: Pine, Red
Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Tripiṭaka. -- Sūtrapiṭaka. -- Prajñāpāramitā. -- Hr̦daya -- Commentaries
Work titles: Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Prajñāpāramitā. Hr̦daya. English
Description: "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, Prajnaparamita Hridaya 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, 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 book of deep teaching destined to become the standard edition of this timeless statement of Mahayana truth."--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: Prajnaparamita; title: Abhidharma in the light of Prajnaparamita; title: The Bodhisattva path; title: The womb of Buddhas