Essence of the Heart Sutra: The Dalai Lama's Heart of Wisdom Teachings - Hardcover

Dalai Lama XIV

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0861713184 ISBN 13: 9780861713189

Publisher: Wisdom Pubns, 2002

Synopsis

This book includes the complete text of the Heart of Wisdom teachings given over several days by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to 8,000 enthralled attendees during May, 2001 in San Jose, California.

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Review:

In Essence of the Heart Sutra, the Dalai Lama translates and interprets a central teaching of Buddhism with his trademark precision and straight talk. In the Heart Sutra, the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara describes how to train in the perfection of wisdom by seeing through the illusions of all things. The Dalai Lama goes through the text passage by passage, after an extensive introduction to the basics of Buddhism and the Mahayana tradition's emphasis on emptiness. This doesn't take long, as the entire sutra covers all of three pages, but the Dalai Lama shows how understanding emptiness is a key to happiness and liberation from suffering. Although Essence of the Heart Sutra does not differ significantly in overall message from previous offerings such as The Meaning of Life and An Open Heart, in this book the Dalai Lama stays focused on the relevance of the Heart Sutra, and who better to explain it than the man reported to be the present-day incarnation of Avalokiteshvara himself. --Brian Bruya

About the Author:

Gabra Zackman knows romance. Her clever and “thrilling romantic caper” (Library Journal) Bod Squad series was inspired by the more than one hundred romance and women’s fiction titles she has narrated for audio. She divides her time between her native New York City and Denver, Colorado.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wisdom Pubns
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0861713184
• ISBN 13: 9780861713189
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 179