The Dalai Lam The Heart Of Wisdom In Mahayana Buddhism

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THE ART OF HEART SUTRA
INTRODUCTION
The basis of the Dalai Lama’s teachings has been presented in the text ,this short Buddhist scripture entitled the heart of wisdom is considered as one of the most sacred texts of Mahayana Buddhism .
The religion which mainly flourishes in India ,china,Tibet,japan,korea,Mongolia ,Vietnam,and many other regions of central Asia ,including what is today’s modern Afghanistan.
This text plays a very important role in the religious lives of people who follow Buddhism all around the world; these scriptures are memorized, chanted, and meditated by the followers of Mahayana Buddhism. Even in today’s world where religious beliefs outnumbers the chanting of these sutras can be heard in Tibetan monasteries ,Zen temples …show more content…

Edward conze played a very important role in translating theses scriptures’ ,He is an European scholar who spent much of his life in translating this scriptures .As per Edward conze these scriptures were composed somewhere between 100 B.C.E to 600 C.E .
As one goes further with the text the great Dalai Lama himself shares his views on the way we humans are, the nature of the humans and the nature of universe in its context being one of the greatest practitioner of Buddhism in the history he is respected by millions of Buddhists as well as non Buddhists from all around the glob though he just considers himself nothing but a lazy practitioner of Buddhism.
RESARCH OBJECTIVES
We need religion in order to develop both this inner peace and peace among the world’s people that is the essential role of religion today and in pursuit of this goal, harmony among the different traditions become …show more content…

then whether it be Hinduism ,Buddhism or any other religion as the topic that I choose was very deep hence it was not an easy task for me to gather the perfect information required I had to go through many sites learn about mahatma Buddha first and then learn about the present spiritual leader of Buddhists Mr. Tenzin gyatso commonly known as the fourteenth dalai lama, but all I was getting was short biographies and quotes which was not at all satisfactory but I got a brief idea on how the teachings of Buddhism work and what’s so interesting about the teachings of Buddhism .interacting with some Buddhist monks helped a lot I went to a monastery near kailash colony lajpat nagar a Japanese monastery basically but it has no huge difference though, it was then when the abbes (the head monk of the monastery ) told me about the basic concepts of Buddhism around which all the teachings chants and meditation is done and referred me the text essence of heart sutra a book published by wisdom publications the texts refers about the ancient scriptures the sutras of Buddhism .thanks to the abbes for his cooperation and time but it was not at all an easy task to find a monastery in a

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