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Heart Sūtra

The shortest Perfection of Wisdom sūtra: form is emptiness, emptiness is form.

Also: Heart Sutra, Prajnaparamita Hridaya

Mahāyāna, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism

The Heart Sūtra, a text of a single page, presents Avalokiteśvara’s teaching to Śāriputra that the five aggregates are empty, that form is not other than emptiness and emptiness not other than form. It ends with a mantra. It is chanted daily across East Asian and Tibetan Buddhism.