The Heart Sutra
April 9 – 17, 2014
A 9-day Residential Intermediate-Level Course. Led by Glen Svensson.
This course is now fully booked.
You can still register in order to have your name added to a
waiting list, but places cannot be confirmed.
Buddhism’s Most Direct, Most Succinct Teaching About the True Nature of our Own Being and of All Reality.
The Heart Sutra contains the essence of the perfection of wisdom teachings, describing in a very succinct manner the nature of reality and how to go about cultivating this wisdom realizing the nature of reality, the wisdom of emptiness. Without realizing the nature of reality we will not be able to completely liberate ourselves from suffering.
In this course we will be systematically going through the Heart Sutra looking at how to develop the correct understanding of emptiness (Skt. shunyata) and then how to cultivate this wisdom of emptiness along the various stages of the path to enlightenment.
To deepen our understanding of emptiness we will also be looking at the view of reality as described within the four Buddhist philosophical systems of Vaibhasika, Sautrantika, Cittamatra and Madhyamika.
Recommended Reading
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, “The Essence of the Heart Sutra”
Thich Nhat Hanh, “The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra”
Geshe Sonam Rinchen and Ruth Sonam, “The Heart Sutra: An Oral Teaching by Geshe Sonam Rinchen”
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, “How to See Yourself as You Really Are”
Gen. Lamrimpa, “How to Realize Emptiness”
For more information about Intermediate Courses, including how to register, see our
Intermediate Course Page.
The photo above is of Vulture’s Peak, Rajgir, Bihar State, India – the setting of The Heart Sutra.