My Heart Sutra : a world in 260 characters / Frederik L. Schodt.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Berkeley, California : Stone Bridge Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 248 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781611720624
- 1611720621
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Main Library | NonFiction | 294.385 S363 | Available | 33111010497622 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
"Form and emptiness, mantra and meaning"--Front cover.
"Frederik L. Schodt explores his lifelong fascination with the Heart 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."--Back cover.
Foreword -- My mantra -- How I met the mantra -- Seeking context -- Xuanzang -- Monkey -- An American thesis -- Heart Sutra land -- The metaphysical can opener -- New life in a new world -- Afterword.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-241) and index.