Heart Sutra

Commentaries on the "Heart Sutra," which contains the essence of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras.

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Venerable Chodron meditating.

Four Seals and the Heart Sutra Retreat (2009)

Teachings from a three-day retreat on the four seals of Buddhism and the Heart Sutra held at Sravasti Abbey from September 5-7.

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The Heart Sutra in Chinese carved on marble blocks in a garden in Korea.

Heart Sutra Retreat (Castle Rock 1998)

Commentary on the Heart Sutra, covering the sequence of insights generated on the five bodhisattva paths and the relationship between conventional and ultimate truth.

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Book cover with traditional Tibetan scriptures.

Heart Sutra Teachings (2024-2025)

Teachings on Essence of the Heart Sutra by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

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Heart Sutra

The implicit meaning of the Heart Sutraf

The bodhisattva paths and grounds and how different afflictions are eliminated.

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Heart Sutra

The mantra of the perfection of wisdom

Explaining the explicit and implicit meaning of the mantra of the perfection of wisdom.

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Nirvana

The emptiness of all phenomena and different interpretations of nirvana.

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The eight aspects of emptiness

The emptiness of an object's characteristics and of the 12 links of dependent arising.

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Traditions of interpretation

Examining the four profundities and why analysis is crucial for perceiving emptiness.

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Understanding the two truths

Examining how form depends on causes and conditions and is an expression of emptiness.

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Emptiness and dependent origination

Examining different meanings of dependence and different ways of inherently existing.

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The two middle-way schools

Investigating how the self exists and two primary divisions in the middle-way school.

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Definitive verses, provisional interpretations

The importance of investigating all teachings and an introduction to the middle-way view.

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Why do I say I’m unhappy?

How karma fuels our experiences and an introduction to selflessness in different tenet systems.

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