The Heart Of Prajna Paramita

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Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1627874569
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Prajna Paramita Sutra, Volume 1 written by and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: praj·na: transcendental wisdom pa·ra·mi·ta: ferrying over to the other shore; perfection The Heart Sutra and the Diamond Sutra are essential reading for those who practice Buddhism. Over the past thirteen centuries, however, the larger work to which they belong has been available only in Chinese. Now, for the first time, English speakers can access the first twenty fascicles of The Great Prajna Paramita Sutra, regarded as the largest canon in Buddhism. The Great Prajna Paramita Sutra demonstrates how one can become a bodhisattva -- and eventually a Buddha -- transcending self-interest to reach a state of emptiness, selflessness, and nonattachment. Regardless of where you are on the path to enlightenment, you’ll be nourished by the parables and dialogues within.

Author : Red Pine
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582439923
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heart Sutra written by Red Pine and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation The most influential Buddhist sutra in the Mahayana tradition, from one of the world’s preeminent translators of religious texts The Heart Sutra is Buddhism in a nutshell. It has had the most profound and wide–reaching influence of any text in Buddhism. This short text covers more of the Buddha’s teachings than any other scripture, and it does so without being superficial or hurried. Although the original author is unknown, he was clearly someone with a deep realization of the Dharma. For this new English translation, 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. Divided into four parts and broken into thirty–five lines to make it easier to study or chant, and containing a glossary of names, terms, and texts, The Heart Sutra is a wise book of deep teaching destined to become the standard edition of this timeless statement of Mahayana truth.

Author : Karl Brunnholzl
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834840383
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heart Attack Sutra written by Karl Brunnholzl and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the famous Heart Sūtra that reveals the tenderness and compassion underlying the striking rhetoric of this popular Buddhist text The radical message of the Heart Sūtra, one of Buddhism’s most famous texts, is a sweeping attack on everything we hold most dear: our troubles, the world as we know it, even the teachings of the Buddha himself. Several of the Buddha’s followers are said to have suffered heart attacks and died when they first heard its assertion of the basic groundlessness of our existence—hence the title of this book. Overcoming fear, the Buddha teaches, is not to be accomplished by shutting down or building walls around oneself, but instead by opening up to understand the illusory nature of everything we fear—including ourselves. In this book of teachings, Karl Brunnhölzl guides practitioners through this ‘crazy’ sutra to the wisdom and compassion that lie at its core.

Author : Hsuan Hua
Publisher : Buddhist Text Translation Society
ISBN 13 : 160103041X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heart of Prajñā Pāramitā Sūtra written by Hsuan Hua and published by Buddhist Text Translation Society. This book was released on with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often cited as perhaps the best-known Mahayana Buddhist sutra, the Heart Sutra has been chanted daily in Buddhist monasteries in Asia for more than a thousand years. This sutra, the “heart” of the larger Prajna Paramita (Perfection of Wisdom) Sutra, describes the experience of the liberation of the bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteśvara, through the insight gained from deep meditation into the fundamental emptiness of all phenomena. With commentary by the Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua, one of the foremost Tripitaka and Chan masters of Chinese Buddhism in the United States. Translated by Ronald Epstein, PhD.

Author : Nhá̂t Hạnh (Thích.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780938077114
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heart of Understanding written by Nhá̂t Hạnh (Thích.) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is regarded as the essence of Buddhist teaching, offering subtle and profound teachings on non-duality; the letting go of all preconceived notions, opinions, and attachments, and so become open to all the wonders of our life. This book features a translation and commentary by Thich Nhat Hanh.

Author : Lex Hixon
Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 : 9780835606899
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mother of the Buddhas written by Lex Hixon and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 1993-05-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lex Hixon's "contemplative expansion" of forty passages from the Prajnaparamita Sutra, the basic scripture of all schools of Mahayana Buddhism, yields a text of devotional beauty that is at once dramatic and uplifting. The text sets forth the Bodhisattva path to enlightenment. Features a foreword by renowned American Buddhist scholar Dr. Robert A. Thurman.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Sutra written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Osho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heart Sutra written by Osho and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Snow Lion
ISBN 13 : 9781559393577
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gone Beyond (Volume 2) written by and published by Snow Lion. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Abhisamayalamkara summarizes all the topics in the vast body of the Prajnaparamita Sutras. Resembling a zip-file, it comes to life only through its Indian and Tibetan commentaries. Together, these texts not only discuss the "hidden meaning" of the Prajnaparamita Sutras—the paths and bhumis of sravakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas—but also serve as contemplative manuals for the explicit topic of these sutras—emptiness—and how it is to be understood on the progressive levels of realization of bodhisattvas. Thus these texts describe what happens in the mind of a bodhisattva who meditates on emptiness, making it a living experience from the beginner's stage up through buddhahood. Gone Beyond contains the first in-depth study of the Abhisamayalamkara (the text studied most extensively in higher Tibetan Buddhist education) and its commentaries in the Kagyu School. This study (in two volumes) includes translations of Maitreya's famous text and its commentary by the Fifth Shamarpa Goncho Yenla (the first translation ever of a complete commentary on the Abhisamayalamkara into English), which are supplemented by extensive excerpts from the commentaries by the Third, Seventh, and Eighth Karmapas and others. Thus it closes a long-standing gap in the modern scholarship on the Prajnaparamita Sutras and the literature on paths and bhumis in mahayana Buddhism. The first volume presents an English translation of the first three chapters of the Abhisamayalamkara and its commentary by the Fifth Shamarpa. The second volume presents an English translation of the final five chapters and its commentary by the Fifth Shamarpa.

Author : Dosung Yoo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614290539
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thunderous Silence written by Dosung Yoo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thunderous Silence throws light on the Heart Sutra--a pithy encapsulation of the essence of Perfection of Wisdom literature--using stop-by-step analysis and an easy, conversational voice. Dosung Yoo examines the sutra phrase by phrase, using rich explanations and metaphors drawn from Korean folklore, quantum physics, Charles Dickens, and everything in between to clarify subtle concepts for the reader. This book invites us to examine the fundamentals of Buddhism--the Four Noble Truths, emptiness, enlightenment--through the prism of the Heart Sutra. Both those new to Buddhism and longtime practitioners looking to revisit a core text from a fresh perspective will find this work appealing.