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Heart Sūtra

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form: the larger and smaller versions.

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The Pragñā-pāramitā-hṛdaya-sūtra, tr. F. Max Müller
F. Max Müller, 1894

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F. Max Müller's translation (1894) of the Heart Sūtra in both its versions: the larger (section 1) and the smaller, best-known one (section 2). Read from scans of the printed volume.

Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East vol. 49 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894): the Buddha-karita of Aśvaghoṣa, translated by E. B. Cowell; the Larger and Smaller Sukhāvatī-vyūha, the Vagrakkhedikā and the Pragñā-pāramitā-hṛdaya-sūtra, translated by F. Max Müller. Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive. · Source ↗

Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East 49 (1894). Public domain. Read from scans of the printed edition: every word was checked against three or four independent scans of the same printing and corrected where they agree; footnotes, running heads and page numbers are left out. Diacritics the OCR could not read are not reproduced.

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