般若波罗蜜多心经
Mahayana · 大乘
The Heart Sutra is the most widely recited Buddhist text in the world. In just 260 Chinese characters, it distils the entire Prajnaparamita teaching on emptiness — the insight that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence. Chanted daily in Zen, Tibetan, and East Asian Buddhist temples, its central teaching is: form is emptiness, emptiness is form.