The Heart Sutra by Kazuaki Tanahashi

Author:Kazuaki Tanahashi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Appendix 1: Texts for Comparison

SOME KEY TEXTS of the Heart Sutra and the Hridaya in seven Asian languages are presented below, together with several English versions. These seven Eastern-language texts represent the principal world languages in which the sutra has been recited in the past. First, however, I offer some earlier texts as materials for examining the formation of the sutra. The Asian texts are presented in chronological order, roughly following the sequence of emergence suggested by Jan Nattier, as I introduced in chapter 13.

I use Xuanzang’s Chinese version as the primary text. To make a quick reference and comparison possible, I have divided the Xuanzang version into forty-four segments. Each segment consists of terms, a phrase, or a sentence. Lines in other texts that do not have corresponding parts in Xuanzang’s Chinese text are marked with the preceding line number followed by “x.” The bracketed words have been added later. For the shorter-version Heart Sutra and Hridaya texts, I have added in parentheses the abbreviations explained earlier.

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