THE HANNYA
SHINGYO
The
Heart Sutra (of Transendental Wisdom)
Copyright
© 2003 James Deacon
The Heart Sutra ( or 'Heart of the Wisdom Sutra' ) is the shortest
of all the Sutras.
Comprised
of less than 300 kanji characters, the Hannya Shingyo
is regarded as the summation of the wisdom of Buddha.
A distillation
of the essence of Zen thought, the Hannya Shingyo teaches
the most basic of all Buddhist philosophy - the insight attained
by non-attachment - the doctrine of Emptiness or Ku.
The
Heart Sutra is derived from the Hannya Kyo or 'Great Wisdom-perfection
Heart Sutra'
Reciting
the Heart Sutra is, on one level a sign of one's devotion to Zen
Buddhism, and the unknowable; it is also a way of generating 'merit'
- for oneself, or for one on whose behalf the sutra is recited.
In folk belief, it is said that reciting the hannya shingyo
makes one invisible to evil spirits and demons.
Click on image
for a printable copy of the Hannya Shingo written in bonji
- the sacred characters of the Siddham Script
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THE HEART SUTRA
BU SETSU MAKA HANNYA HARAMITA SHIN GYO
KAN
JI ZAI BO SA GYO JIN HAN NYA HA RA MI TA JI SHO KEN GO UN
KAI KU DO IS-SAI KU YAKU SHA RI SHI SHIKI FU I KU KU FU
I SHIKI SHIKI SOKU ZE KU KU SOKU ZE SHIKI JU SO GYO SHIKI
YAKU BU NYO ZE SHA RI SHI ZE SHO HO KU SO FU SHO FU METSU
FU KU FU JO FU ZO FU GEN ZE KO KU CHU MU SHIKI MU JU SO
GYO SHIKI MU GEN NI BI ZETS SHIN NI MU SHIKI SHO KO MI SOKU
HO MU GEN KAI NAI SHI MU I SHIKI KAI MU MU MYO YAKU MU MU
MYO JIN NAI SHI MU RO SHI YAKU MO RO SHI JIN MU KU SHU METSU
DO MU CHI YAKU MU TOKU I MU SHO TOK-KO BO DAI SAT- TA E
HAN-NYA HA RA MI TA KO SHIN MU KE GE MU KE GE KO MU U KU
FU ON RI IS SAI TEN DO MU SO KU GYO NE HAN SAN ZE SHO BUTSU
E HAN- NYA HA RA MI TA KO TOKU A NOKU TA RA SAN MYAKU SAN
BO DAI KO CHI HAN- NYA HA RA MI TA ZE DAI SHIN SHU ZE DAI
MYO SHU ZE MU JO SHU ZE MU TO DO SHU NO JO IS-SAI KU SHIN
JITSU FU KO KO SETSU HAN-NYA HA RA MI TA SHU SOKU SETSU
SHU WATSU GYA TE GYA TE HA RA GYA TE HARA SO GYA TE BO DHI
SOWA KA HAN-NYA SHIN GYO
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