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Abhidharma
Apocryphon
Arhat
Author_Donald S. Lopez
Avalokitesvara
Awareness
Bhaga
Bhikkhu
Bodhi
Bodhisattva
Buddha-nature
Buddhahood
Buddhavacana
Buddhism
Buddhist studies
Buddhist texts
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Common Era
Consecration
Critical edition (opera)
Deity
Doctrine
Emptiness
Epithet
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Equanimity
Exegesis
Existence
Exorcism
Frits Staal
Geshe
Haribhadra
Hinduism
Impermanence
Indian religions
Jr.
Kasina
Litany
Literature
Monastery
Motilal Banarsidass
Officiant
Omniscience
Paramita
Perfection of Wisdom
Pratityasamutpada
Recitation
Refuge (Buddhism)
Religion
Religious text
Rite
Sanskrit
Sarnath
Scholasticism
Sentient beings (Buddhism)
Skandha
Sunyata
Supplication
Tantra
Tao Te Ching
Taoism
The Venerable
Tibetan Buddhism
Vairocana
Vajra
Vajrayana
Vedas
Vimalamitra
Vinaya
Vulture Peak
Worship
Writing
Yajna
Yogi
Product details
- ISBN 9780691001883
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 08 Nov 1998
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Heart Sutra is perhaps the most famous Buddhist text, traditionally regarded as a potent expression of emptiness and of the Buddha's perfect wisdom. This brief, seemingly simple work was the subject of more commentaries in Asia than any other sutra. In Elaborations on Emptiness, Donald Lopez explores for the first time the elaborate philosophical and ritual uses of the Heart Sutra in India, Tibet, and the West. Included here are full translations of the eight extant Indian commentaries. Interspersed with the translations are six essays that examine the unusual roles the Heart Sutra has played: it has been used as a mantra, an exorcism text, a tantric meditation guide, and as the material for comparative philosophy. Taken together, the translations and essays that form Elaborations on Emptiness demonstrate why commentary is as central to modern scholarship on Buddhism as it was for ancient Buddhists. Lopez reveals unexpected points of instability and contradiction in the Heart Sutra, which, in the end, turns out to be the most malleable of texts, where the logic of commentary serves as a tool of both tradition and transgression.
Donald S. Lopez, Jr., is Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. He is the editor of Princeton Readings in Religions, which includes Religions of China in Practice, Buddhism in Practice,
Religions of India in Practice, and Religions of Tibet in Practice.
