The Heart Sutra ( Herz Sutra) is the shortest and most widely recited text in Mahayana Buddhism. Known in Sanskrit as the Prajnaparamita-hrdaya-sutra ("Heart/Sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom"), it condenses the vast Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) teachings into approximately 260 Chinese characters (or 14 verses in the Sanskrit). The Sutra takes the form of a dialogue between the Buddha (in a state of deep Samadhi) and his attendant disciple Shariputra, facilitated by the BodhisattvaAva
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