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My Heart Sutra

By Frederik L. Schodt

Release : 2020-12-15

Genre : Buddhism, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Health, Mind & Body, Spirituality

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The 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.

My Heart Sutra

By Frederik L. Schodt

Release : 2020-12-15

Genre : Buddhism, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Health, Mind & Body, Spirituality

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
The 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.

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