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The Prajna Paramita Heart
Sutra
Second Edition (get PDF version)
Translated from Sanskrit into Chinese
by Tripitaka Master Hsuan Tsang
Commentary by Grand Master T'an
Hsu
Translated into English by
Venerable Dharma Master Lok To
Edited by K'un Li, Shih and
Dr. Frank G. French |
- Acknowledgement
- Preface
One: Disciple Nien An
- Preface
Two: Disciple Wang K'ai
- Translator's
Introduction
- Prologue
by the Grand Master T'an Hsu
- Beginning
of the Commentary by Grand Master T'an Hsu
- When
the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara
- Was
Coursing in the Deep Prajna Paramita,
- He
Perceived That All Five Skandhas Are Empty.
- Thus
He Overcame All Ills and Suffering.
- Oh,
Sariputra, Form Does Not Differ From the Void, and the Void Does Not
Differ From Form. Form is Void and Void is Form; the Same is True For
Feelings, Perceptions, Volitions and
Consciousness.
- Sariputra,
the Characteristics of the Voidness of All Dharmas Are Non-Arising,
Non-Ceasing, Non-Defiled, Non-Pure, Non-Increasing,
Non-Decreasing.
- Therefore,
in the Void There Are No Forms, No Feelings, Perceptions, Volitions or
Consciousness.
- No
Eye, Ear, Nose, Tongue, Body or Mind; No Form, Sound, Smell, Taste,
Touch or Mind Object, No Realm of the Eye, Until We Come to No Realm of
Consciousness.
- No
Ignorance and Also No Ending of Ignorance, Until We Come to No Old Age
and Death and No Ending of Old Age and Death.
- Also,
There is No Truth of Suffering, of the Cause of Suffering, of the
Cessation of Suffering, Nor of the Path.
- There
is No Wisdom, and There is No Attainment
Whatsoever.
- Because
There is Nothing To Be Attained, the Bodhisattva Relying On Prajna
Paramita Has No Obstruction in His Mind
- Because
There is No Obstruction, He Has No Fear,
- And
He Passes Far Beyond Confused Imagination,
- And
Reaches Ultimate Nirvana.
- The
Buddhas of the Past, Present and Future, By Relying on Prajna Paramita,
Have Attained Supreme Enlightenment.
- Therefore,
the Prajna Paramita is the Great Magic Spell, the Spell of Illumination,
the Supreme Spell, Which Can Truly Protect One From All Suffering
Without Fail.
- Therefore
He Uttered the Spell of Prajnaparamita, Saying Gate, Gate, Paragate,
Parasamgate, Bodhi Svaha.
- Memorial
for My Master, the Great Teacher T'an Hsu by Disciple Wang
K'ai
- Glossary
- Other
Works by the Committee
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