Name: My Heart Sutra: A World in 260 Characters
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Author: Frederik L. Schodt
ISBN: 9781611720624

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My Heart Sutra: A World in 260 Characters

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Physical Book

Author

Frederik L. Schodt

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781611720624

Synopsis "My Heart Sutra: A World in 260 Characters"

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.