Library Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
Traditional attribution
The Heart Sutra
Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya (般若心經)
The briefest and most recited of the Perfection of Wisdom texts: in barely three hundred words it states that "form is emptiness and emptiness is form", denies the own-existence of the aggregates and of the four noble truths and culminates in a mantra. It is chanted daily in monasteries in China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam and Tibet.
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Authorship note
A Mahayana sutra that puts its teachings in the Buddha's mouth. Scholarship regards it as a composition long after his death by anonymous authors of the Mahayana movements; it is attributed to the historical Gotama only through the formula "Thus have I heard". In it the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara speaks to Sariputra; the Buddha intervenes only, in the long version, to approve what was said. Jan Nattier (1992) argued that it was composed in Chinese and translated back into Sanskrit, a thesis still debated.
Editions and translations
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English
The Heart Sutra: The Womb of Buddhas
Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004
Translation: Red Pine
ISBN 9781593760090
Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
The Larger and Smaller Pragñâ-pâramitâ-hridaya-sûtra (Buddhist Mahâyâna Texts, SBE XLIX)
The Conscious LibraryThe Larger and Smaller Pragñâ-pâramitâ-hridaya-sûtra (Buddhist Mahâyâna Texts, SBE XLIX)
Clarendon Press, 1894
Translation: F. Max Müller
Dominio público.
Español
Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
El sutra del corazón
The Conscious LibraryEl sutra del corazón
Edaf, 2018
ISBN 9788441428201
Traducción española de la obra de Red Pine.
Other works by Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
- Tipitaka, the Pali Canon ("Three Baskets") · 25
- Digha Nikaya (The Long Discourses) · 25
- Majjhima Nikaya (The Middle Length Discourses) · 25
- Samyutta Nikaya (The Connected Discourses) · 25
- Anguttara Nikaya (The Numerical Discourses) · 25
- Dhammapada (Verses on the Dhamma) · 25
- Sutta Nipata (The Group of Discourses) · 25
- Udana (Inspired Utterances) · 25
- Vinaya Pitaka (The Basket of Discipline) · 25
- The Discourse on Setting the Wheel of the Dhamma in Motion · 25
- Mahaparinibbana Sutta (The Great Discourse on the Final Extinguishment) · 25
- The Sutra in Forty-Two Sections · 150
- The Lotus Sutra (Saddharmapundarika) · 100
- The Diamond Sutra · 300
- The Lankavatara Sutra · 400
- Itivuttaka (Thus It Was Said) · 25
- Khuddakapatha (The Minor Readings) · 25
- Jataka (Stories of the Buddha's Former Births) · 25
- Satipatthana Sutta (Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness) · 25
- Anattalakkhana Sutta (Discourse on the Characteristic of Not-Self) · 25
- Kalama Sutta (Discourse to the Kalamas) · 25
- Pure Land Sutras (Sukhavativyuha) · 150
- Avatamsaka Sutra (Flower Ornament Sutra) · 400
Sources
- Cowell, E. B., Max Müller, F. y Takakusu, J. (trads.). Buddhist Mahâyâna Texts. Sacred Books of the East, vol. XLIX. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1894 (Buddhacarita de Aśvaghoṣa; Vajracchedikā; Prajñāpāramitā-hṛdaya; Sukhāvatīvyūha). Dominio público.
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