The Journey In Library · Sacred Texts · No. 15
The Heart Sutra and the Diamond Sutra
The Perfection of Wisdom, in Sanskrit and plain English with notes
Sanskrit · c. 1st–4th century CE · Mahayana Buddhism
रूपं शून्यता शून्यतैव रूपम् ।
रूपान्न पृथक् शून्यता शून्यताया न पृथग्रूपम् ॥
rūpaṃ śūnyatā śūnyataiva rūpam |
rūpān na pṛthak śūnyatā śūnyatāyā na pṛthag rūpam ||
Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form. Emptiness is not other than form; form is not other than emptiness.
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From the book
Emptiness is easily misunderstood as a bleak claim that nothing exists or nothing matters. Both of these sutras take care to rule that out.
Things are empty not because they are absent, but because they arise in dependence on everything else. Seeing this clearly is meant to bring freedom from fear and clinging, and to make compassion boundless.
What's inside
- About this edition and key terms
- The Heart Sutra
- The Diamond Sutra, in 32 sections
About this edition
The original Sanskrit in Devanagari script, with a new translation into plain, modern English written for The Journey In, and short notes where a verse needs context.