Abstract
The Heart Sūtra is easily the best known of all the Prajnāpāramitā texts. Although a Mahāyāna work it is closely related to Pāli Buddhism which has occupied much of Dr. I.B. Horner’s life. The greater part of the Sūtra is a discussion of that interpretation of the Buddha-dharma which Sāriputra, ‘the generalissimo of the Dhamma’, had formulated, and which culminated in the Abhidharma literature. And at the end, when the prajnāpāramitā is called a mantra, we are forcibly reminded of the obscure statement of Niddesa 1 which calls pannā a mantā, a term equated in another ancient text2 with “in truth”, as opposed to musā, just as in No. 57 of the Heart Sūtra.
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