Translated by C.R. Lama and James Low in 1978. Revised by James Low, August 2013 Download PDF of Heart Sutra in English Download PDF of Heart Sutra in Portuguese Download PDF of Heart Sutra in German Download PDF Of Heart Sutra (extracted from “This Is It’) in German translated by Robert Jaroslawski Embedded with the permission of Adrian Freedman.
» Read moreJames Low Emerson College, East Sussex, UK. July 4-6th 2014 This annual camping retreat in the grounds of Emerson College in East Sussex is organised by Huw Wyn. James begins by saying that, “Tomorrow we will start looking at the Heart Sutra, one of the Buddha’s first teachings on emptiness or the natural openness of all phenomena, and then we will […]
» Read moreNew Transcript: This transcript is new on the website, having been was prepared and revised by James Low in November 2020.
» Read moreJames Low The Heart Sutra as a way of understanding the view and practice in tantra and dzogchen. Place: National Library of Estonia, Tallinn Date: 20 September, 2013. English only You can also watch a Youtube video of the talk James gave, “The Healing Power of Emptiness” the evening before the weekend teaching English here. Estonian translation here.
» Read moreJames Low Title: The Heart Sutra as a way of understanding the view and practice in tantra and dzogchen Place: Public Talk at the National Library of Estonia in Tallinn, Estonia Date: 20 September, 2013. Translator: Leho Rubis With Estonian Language Watch a video of this with Estonian here
» Read moreJames Low. 12-13 March 1994 Download PDF “The instigation for the sutra comes from the Buddha who, in his meditation goes to Sariputra, prompting him to ask a question of Chenrezig. Chenrezig in turn is in his meditation as he replies to the questions. In this way the Buddha stimulates Sariputra to ask a question of Chenrezig, so the teaching […]
» Read moreThere are three sections to this book. The first section explores our origins and uses the clarity that arises from this to ease us out of our isolation.
The second section describes how we wander in samsara due to the dependent arising of the twelve links on the wheel of becoming.
The third section describes how we can use the teaching of the The Heart Sutra to awaken to emptiness.
