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Renowned for its terse 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 on form is emptiness, emptiness is form, 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.
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The Heart Sutra Explained : Indian and Tibetan Commentaries SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies
author
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Lopez, Donald S.
publisher
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State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin
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0887065902
print isbn13
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9780887065903
ebook isbn13
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9780585068664
language
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English
subject
Tripitaka.--Sutrapitaka.--Prajaparamita.--Hrdaya--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
publication date
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1988
lcc
:
BQ1967.L67 1988eb
ddc
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294.3/85
subject
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Tripitaka.--Sutrapitaka.--Prajaparamita.--Hrdaya--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
The Heart Sutra* Explained: Indian and Tibetan Commentaries
SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies Kenneth Inada, Editor
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The Heart Sutra* Explained: Indian and Tibetan Commentaries
Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
State University of New York Press
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1988 State University of New York
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Lopez, Jr., Donald S., 1952 The Heart Sutra explained. (SUNY series in Buddhist studies) Bibliography: p. 215 Includes index. 1. Tripitaka*. Sutrapitaka*. Prajnaparamita*. Hrdaya* Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Title. II. Series. BQ1967.L671987294.3'8587-6479 ISBN 0-88706-589-9 ISBN 9-88706-590-2 (pbk.)
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
1
Introduction
3
Part I: Indian Commentaries
Chapter 1: The Sutra*
19
Chapter 2: The Title
21
Chapter 3: The Prologue
33
Chapter 4: The Question and the Answer
49
Chapter 5: Form is Emptiness; Emptiness is Form
57
Chapter 6: The Negations and Enlightenment
95
Chapter 7: The Mantra
109
Chapter 8: The Epilogue
121
Chapter 9: The Structure of the Sutra* and the Structure of the Path
123
Part II: Tibetan Commentaries
Chapter 10: Commentary on the Heart Sutra*, Jewel Light Illuminating the Meaning
139
Chapter 11: An Explanation of the Heart Sutra* Mantra, Illuminating the Hidden Meaning
161
Notes
187
Selected Bibliography
215
Index
227
Page vi
To J.M.S.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Among the various causes and conditions that conjoined to allow me to undertake and complete this study, there are several that deserve special mention. In January 1982, Yeshe Thupten, a distinguished Tibetan monk and scholar, came to Middlebury College where he taught a Winter Term course on the Heart Sutra*. In preparation for translating for him, I made a preliminary translation of the first of the Tibetan commentaries that appears in this study, that of bsTan-dar-lha-ram-pa. Yeshe Thupten also provided me with a detailed oral commentary on this text during his stay in Vermont. In 1983, I received a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities to begin this study. During the tenure of the award, I translated four Tibetan commentaries on the Heart Sutra*, two of which are included here. I received a research leave from Middlebury College for the spring semester of 1986, during which I made a study of the extant Indian commentaries and completed the first draft of the manuscript.
I wish to express my thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities and to Middlebury College for providing me with the time and financial assistance to complete this study. In addition to Yeshe Thupten, I would like to express my gratitude to Jeffrey Hopkins of the University of Virginia for his aid in unravelling some of the more intractable Tibetan passages and to David Eckel of Harvard University for many useful queries and suggestions on the Indian commentaries. Geshe Thupten Gyatso of the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center in Washington, New Jersey provided insightful comments on the tantric commentary on the Heart Sutra* translated in Chapter 7. Thanks are also due to Richard Martin, proprietor of the Tibetan collection of the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, for supplying xerographic versions of the sutras* and
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