Knowing the Heart Sūtra by Heart

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" Knowing the Heart Sūtra by Heart "
Joseph O'Leary

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081341
Doc. No	:	LA124970
Call No	:	‭10.1163/156852908X271132‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Joseph O'Leary
Title & Author	:	Knowing the Heart Sūtra by Heart [Article]\ Joseph O'Leary
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2008
Volume/ Issue Number	:	12/1
Page No	:	356–370
Abstract	:	The current situation of Christian faith lends a new attraction to the Mahāyāna doctrine that nothing has substantial being and that language and religions are radically conventional constructions, to be handled skillfully with a new art of judgement. We can bring a hermeneutics of the heart to bear on the doctrine of emptiness if we note how, in the Heart Sūtra, it is voiced by the bodhisattva of compassion. The wisdom of emptiness takes form as a way of life devoted to the liberation of suffering beings. When we muse long on this alien text, we are surprised to find something familiar at its heart, the dynamic of saving love that is central to the Gospel.
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	BUDDHISM
Descriptor	:	CHRISTIANITY
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	COMPASSION
Descriptor	:	EMPTINESS
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	HERMENEUTICS
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	MAHAYANA
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/156852908X271132‬