Heart Sutra Talks
The Heart Sūtra (Sanskrit: प्रज्ञापारमिताहृदय Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya or Chinese: 心經 Xīnjīng, Tibetan: བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ) is a popular sutra in Mahāyāna Buddhism. In Sanskrit, the title Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya translates as "The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom".
The Sutra famously states, "Form is emptiness (śūnyatā), emptiness is form." It is a condensed exposition on the Buddhist Mahayana teaching of the Two Truths doctrine, which says that ultimately all phenomena are Śūnyatā (emptiness).
It has been called "the most frequently used and recited text in the entire Mahayana Buddhist tradition." The text has been translated into English dozens of times from Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan, as well as other source languages.
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Wednesday Lecture training, Practice Period, Heart Sutra, Subject-and-Object, Posture, Instruction,... |
Nov 30 1994 Green Gulch |
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August 14th, 1994, Serial No. 02696 Politics, Ceremony, Vows, Aspects of Practice, Suzuki Roshi, Monastic Practice, Heart... |
Aug 14 1994 Unknown |
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Buddha's BirthdaySerial: SF-03249 Sunday Lecture Buddha's Birthday, Renewal, Ceremony, Bell, Heart Sutra, Nirvana, Offering,... |
Apr 10 1994 Green Gulch |
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Sunday LectureSerial: SF-03675 Includes Q&A and discussion Big Mind, Emptiness, Bell, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Instruction, Zazen,... |
Mar 13 1994 Green Gulch |
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Saturday Lecture Heart Sutra, Bodhisattva Way, Bowing, Avalokiteshvara, Lotus Sutra, Soto Zen, Duality... |
May 08 1993 City Center |
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Sunday Lecture Equanimity, Heart Sutra, Peace, Attachment, Precepts, Cultivation, Interview,... |
Oct 25 1992 Green Gulch |
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Wednesday Lecture Equanimity, Don't Know Mind, Heart Sutra, Suzuki Roshi, Conversation,... |
Sep 30 1992 Green Gulch |
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Precepts, Especially Right SpeechSerial: SF-03957 Sunday Lecture Precepts, Right Speech, Cultivation, Heart Sutra, Happiness, Obstacles, Suzuki Roshi... |
Aug 11 1991 Green Gulch |
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Tara Rinpoche's Memorial Heart Sutra, Bell, Lineage, Bodhisattva Vow, Vows, Happiness, training, Impermanence... |
Jun 30 1991 Green Gulch Farm |