A verse from Kukai’s “Secret Key to the Heart Sutra”
Category: heart sutra
The Heart Sutra in Hangeul (with standardized Revised Romanization)
마 하 반 야 바 라 밀 다 심 경
ma ha ban ya ba ra mil ta shim gyeong
관 자 재 보 살 행 심 반 야
gwan ja jae bo sal haeng shim ban ya
Character component frequency in the Heart Sutra
29 components with 2 occurrences:
广 可 舟 皮 虫 𠂉 寺 灬 刀 皿 白 穴 廿 七 禾 刂 爫 耂 戌 曾 勹 𠫔 月 辶 扌 巾 兄 人 小
106 components with 1 occurrence:
林 手 右 必 巠 巛 雚 見 咅 产 生 亍 罙 㓁 昭 召 縕 𥁕 囚 比 亼 共 皀 卩 戠 复 夂 者 去 烕 火 后 爭 彐 亅 咸 攵 艮 畀 丌 千 殸 耳 声 未 角 蜀 介 ⺻ 歹 首 䒑 知 㝵 旦 戶 斤 是 垂 卄 士 衣 石 疑 龴 巩 凡 忄 布 袁 𧘇 离 㐫 禸 凵 乂 冂 眞 頁 到 至 九 圼 般 弗 弓 豸 兒 臼 礻 申 𥫗 ⺼ 余 貫 毌 貝 虍 业 ⺊ 兌 曷 曰 匃 帝 少
Character frequency in the Heart Sutra
This is based on the 260 character version attributed to Xuanzang. But note that when you include the title, there are actually 270 total characters. Obviously you get different results if you exclude the title, or if you use a shorter version of the title. Many people, including myself, recite the title twice (once at […]
The Korean Heart Sutra
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摩 訶 般 若 波 羅 蜜 多 心 經
마 하 반 야 바 라 밀 다 심 경
ma ha ban ya ba ra mil ta shim gyong
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觀 自 在 菩 薩 行 深 般 若
관 자 재 보 살 행 심 반 야
kwan ja jae bo sal haeng shim ban ya
Korean Buddhist Chanting by Bhikkhuni Gumgang
First she does the Thousand Hands and Eyes Sutra. She starts right off with the mantra to purify speech (suri suri mahasuri ….), that is, she does not include the “invocation” at the beginning. Also, she recites the Great Dharani three times, which is very cool. Other than that it is almost exactly the way that Zen Master Seung Sahn taught this chant (there are a few places where her pronunciation is clearly different).
The Heart Sutra Mantra
揭諦 揭諦 波羅 揭諦 波羅僧 揭諦 菩提 娑婆訶 a-je a-je ba-ra-a-je ba-ra-sung-a-je mo-ji […]
五 蘊 皆 空 (five skandhas all empty)
In this post I’ll do the last four characters of the third line of the Heart Sutra. But perhaps before going any further I should point out that there is no standardization (at least none that I am aware of and/or comply with) for numbering the “lines” of the Heart Sutra. So these “lines” of […]
時 照 見 (from the third line of the Heart Sutra)
OK – now things get a little complicated. Here are the first three lines of the Heart Sutra, with some characters highlighted in two different colors. The color coding is explained below: 1—————————————————————————————– 摩 訶 般 若 波 羅 蜜 多 心 經 ma ha ban ya ba ra mil ta shim gyong great prajna […]