{"product_id":"my-heart-sutra-a-world-in-260-characters","title":"My Heart Sutra","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA cultural and personal journey into the famous sutra that teaches \"form is emptiness; and emptiness is form.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Heart Sutra is the most widely read, chanted, and copied text in East Asian Buddhism. Here Frederik L. Schodt explores his lifelong fascination with the sutra: its mesmerizing mantra, its ancient history, the “emptiness theory, and the way it is used around the world as a metaphysical tool to overcome chaos and confusion and reach a new understanding of reality--a perfection of wisdom. Schodt's journey takes him to caves in China, American beats declaiming poetry, speculations into the sutra's true origins, and even a robot Avalokiteśvara at a Kyoto temple.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stone Bridge Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54016618955096,"sku":null,"price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781611720624_615500a9-c28f-4d55-b650-cd4db852d782.jpg?v=1770709548","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/my-heart-sutra-a-world-in-260-characters","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}