Embodying Emptiness: (Anti-) Aesthetics of the Prajnaparamita-Hrdaya Sutra

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10/02/2007

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Table of Contents Embodying Emptiness: (Anti-) Aesthetics of the Prajnaparamita-Hrdaya Sutra Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. Upaya of the Bodhisattva
  3. Chant as Mahayana Praxis
    1. The Heart Sutra
    2. The Mahayana chants of Chinese Buddhism
  4. Mimesis of emptiness in the Heart Sutra
    1. The Heart Sutra as a story
    2. The Heart Sutra's expression of emptiness to specific audiences
  5. A comparison of Lex Hixon's expansion to Nalanda's Sutra
  6. The mantra of great insight
  7. Conclusion
  8. 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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