Embodying Emptiness: (Anti-) Aesthetics of the Prajnaparamita-Hrdaya Sutra
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- Introduction
- Upaya of the Bodhisattva
- Chant as Mahayana Praxis
- The Heart Sutra
- The Mahayana chants of Chinese Buddhism
- Mimesis of emptiness in the Heart Sutra
- The Heart Sutra as a story
- The Heart Sutra's expression of emptiness to specific audiences
- A comparison of Lex Hixon's expansion to Nalanda's Sutra
- The mantra of great insight
- Conclusion
- Works cited
Abstract
The Prajna-paramita hrdaya sutra, the 'heart' of the Mahayana tradition, represents the Buddhist anti-aesthetic of complete enlightenment in which the perception of any dualistic reality is a view of the deluded mind. The Heart sutra is Avalokitesvara's explanation of the "worldview" of a Bodhisattva dwelling in the state of sunyata (emptiness). In the sutra, the non-aesthetic quality of emptiness is described by Avalokitesvara: "Sariputra, in emptiness there is no form, nor feelingNo eye, ear...; No forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touchables or objects of mind; No sight-organ elementNo mind-consciousness element." In sunyata there is no duality to create the condition of any subject to have an aesthetic experience of any object. And yet "through the power of the [Awakened Being]," the awakening being Avalokitesvara conveys the experience of sunya-ta by means of upaya, 'skill in liberative technique' (Thurman). Avalokitesvara engages the sonic structures of conditioned language to relay how one courses in the unconditioned.
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