The Heart Attack Sutra

A New Commentary on the Heart Sutra

Karl Brunnhölzl

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Snow Lion Publications
16 May 2012

Tibetan Buddhism

The radical message of the Heart Sūtra, one of Buddhism's most famous texts, is a sweeping attack on everything we hold most dear- our troubles, the world as we know it, even the teachings of the Buddha himself. Several of the Buddha's followers are said to have suffered heart attacks and died when they first heard its assertion of the basic groundlessness of our existence-hence the title of this book. Overcoming fear, the Buddha teaches, is not to be accomplished by shutting down or building walls around oneself, but instead by opening up to understand the illusory nature of everything we fear-including ourselves. In this book of teachings, Karl Brunnh lzl guides practitioners through this 'crazy' sutra to the wisdom and compassion that lie at its core.

A guide to the famous HeartSūtra that reveals the tenderness and compassion underlying the striking rhetoric of this popular Buddhist text

The radical message of the HeartSūtra, one of Buddhism's most famous texts, is a sweeping attack on everything we hold most dear- our troubles, the world as we know it, even the teachings of the Buddha himself. Several of the Buddha's followers are said to have suffered heart attacks and died when they first heard its assertion of the basicgroundlessnessof our existence-hence the title of this book.

Overcoming fear, the Buddha teaches, is not to be accomplished by shutting down or building walls around oneself, but instead by opening up to understand the illusory nature of everything we fear-including ourselves. In this book of teachings, Karl Brunnh lzlguides practitioners through this 'crazy'sutrato the wisdom and compassion that lie at its core.

By: Karl Brunnhölzl
Imprint: Snow Lion Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 204g
ISBN: 9781559393911
ISBN 10: 1559393912
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 16 May 2012
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Karl Brunnh lzl, MD, was trained as a physician and also studied Tibetology. He received his systematic training in Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy and practice at the Marpa Institute for Translators, founded by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. Since 1989 he has been a translator and interpreter from Tibetan and English. He is presently involved with the Nitartha Institute as a teacher and translator.

Reviews for The Heart Attack Sutra: A New Commentary on the Heart Sutra

With lively humor and deep scholarly knowledge, Mitra Karl Brunnhï¿½lzl brilliantly unpacks the profundity of the Heart S u tra here for modern readers. In practical and accessible ways, he invites us to join the great practitioners of India and Tibet in contemplating the Heart Sutra's wisdom. We are fortunate to have teachers of Karl's acumen among the growing body of inspiring Western Buddhist teachers. --Dzogchen Ponlop author of Rebel Buddha and Mind Beyond Death When the Buddha revealed the Prajï¿½aparamita sutras, teaches Karl Brunnhï¿½lzl, the arhats in attendance were so shocked by what they were hearing that they died on the spot. The Heart Attack Sutra seeks to preserve this same spiritual shock for Western minds (but perhaps without the grim consequences that Buddha's earlier students had to face!) by presenting and commenting in detail on the Heart Sutra, arguably the most well-known sutra in the Mahayana tradition. --Mandala Magazine