Sunday, 17 January 2021

The Heart Sutra as found in the Taisho Tripitaka , as well as several other notable sutras


 This is an image of the Heart Sutra as found in the Taisho Tripitaka: There is one major difference 

between this version and the Chinese version. The characters 僧莎訶 in the last but one line are, in Chinese versions replaced by the words 薩婆訶. 




another heart sutra 

the great compassion mantra 

the complete 25th chapter of the Lotus sutra, plus the Heart Sutra 



For the sake of completeness, here is the Heart Sutra as it was represented on the Chinese Wikisource.



https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E6%91%A9%E8%A8%B6%E8%88%AC%E8%8B%A5%E6%B3%A2%E7%BE%85%E8%9C%9C%E5%A4%9A%E5%BF%83%E7%B6%93 


An image of the Great Compassion Mantra



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