The Heart Sutra
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
988890096X
ISBN-13
9789888900961
Publisher
Hong Kong University Press
Imprint
Hong Kong University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 6th, 2025
Print length
300 Pages
Weight
582 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 16.10 x 2.30 cms
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Henry C. H. Shiu’s The Heart Sutra: Revisiting Its Texts, History, and Meaning explores the scripture’s origins through Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan sources. He examines its links to Perfection of Wisdom literature and offers a revisionist view bridging Chinese, Indian, and Tibetan traditions.
In The Heart Sūtra: Revisiting Its Texts, History, and Meaning, Henry C. H. Shiu investigates the historical origins of the Heart Sūtra, a significant Buddhist scripture. He compares the Sanskrit texts with their Chinese and Tibetan translations to analyse whether the Heart Sūtra might be a Chinese apocryphon, through detailed linguistic examination. To achieve this goal, Shiu thoroughly examines the primary sources from which the scripture was extracted. He emphasises the necessity of reading the Heart Sūtra in the larger context of the Perfection of Wisdom literature, which contains the essence of Mahāyāna Buddhist teaching. In this monograph, Shiu successfully transcends the boundaries between the Chinese, Indian and Tibetan Buddhist traditions and provides a revisionist interpretation of the Heart Sūtra.
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