TY - BOOK ID - 31389108 TI - Elaborations on Emptiness : Uses of the Heart Sūtra PY - 2016 SN - 069100188X 1400884519 0691027323 9781400884513 9780691027326 9780691001883 PB - Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Tripiṭaka. KW - Panya simgyŏng KW - Hr̥daya KW - Prajnaparamitas. KW - Hannya shingyō KW - Hannya haramitta shingyō KW - Po je hsin ching KW - Mo ho po je po lo ta ming chou ching KW - Po je po lo mi to hsin ching KW - Fo shuo po je po lo mi to hsin ching KW - Po je po lo mi to na ching KW - Mo ho po je sui hsin ching KW - Pʻu pien chih tsang po je po lo mi to hsin ching KW - Po je po lo mi to hsin ching pieh pen KW - Po je po lo to hsin ching KW - Sheng fo mu po je po lo mi to hsin ching KW - Hsin ching KW - Maka hannya haramitta shingyō KW - Hannya shinkyō KW - Bcom ldan ʼdas ma śes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin paʼi sñiṅ po KW - Bo re bo luo mi duo xin jing KW - Xin jing KW - Fo shuo bo re bo luo mi duo xin jing KW - Maha panya paramilta simgyŏng KW - Commentaries. KW - RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist). UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31389108 AB - The Heart Sutra is perhaps the most famous Buddhist text, traditionally regarded as a potent expression of emptiness and of the Buddha's perfect wisdom. This brief, seemingly simple work was the subject of more commentaries in Asia than any other sutra. In Elaborations on Emptiness, Donald Lopez explores for the first time the elaborate philosophical and ritual uses of the Heart Sutra in India, Tibet, and the West. Included here are full translations of the eight extant Indian commentaries. Interspersed with the translations are six essays that examine the unusual roles the Heart Sutra has played: it has been used as a mantra, an exorcism text, a tantric meditation guide, and as the material for comparative philosophy. Taken together, the translations and essays that form Elaborations on Emptiness demonstrate why commentary is as central to modern scholarship on Buddhism as it was for ancient Buddhists. Lopez reveals unexpected points of instability and contradiction in the Heart Sutra, which, in the end, turns out to be the most malleable of texts, where the logic of commentary serves as a tool of both tradition and transgression. ER -