My Heart Sutra (eBook)

A World in 260 Characters

Frederik L. Schodt (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Stone Bridge Press (Verlag)
978-1-61172-944-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A cultural and personal journey into the famous sutra that teaches form is emptiness; and emptiness is form.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 Avalokitevara at a Kyoto temple.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 20 black and white photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Entspannung / Meditation / Yoga
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Schlagworte: Buddhism • Chanting • China:Japan:religion • East Asia • form is emptiness • Hinduism • Mantra • perfection of wisdom • pure land • Spirituality
• ISBN-10: 1-61172-944-0 / 1611729440
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61172-944-3 / 9781611729443