Heart Sutra
<p >The <i><b>Heart Sūtra</b></i> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit" >Sanskrit</a> <i>Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya</i>) is a famous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutra" title="Sutra" >sutra</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana" title="Mahayana" >Mahāyāna Buddhism</a>. Its Sanskrit title, <i><b>Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya</b></i>, literally means "The Heart of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prajnaparamita" title="Prajnaparamita" >Perfection of Understanding</a>".
The <i>Heart Sūtra</i> is often cited as the best-known<sup id="cite_ref-Pine_16_1-0" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra#cite_note-Pine_16-1" >[1]</a></sup> and most popular Buddhist scripture of all.<sup id="cite_ref-Pine_18_2-0" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra#cite_note-Pine_18-2" >[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nattier153_3-0" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra#cite_note-nattier153-3" >[3]</a></sup> The text is very short, and it is generally believed to be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_apocrypha" title="Buddhist apocrypha" >Buddhist apocrypha</a> written in China using excerpts of a translation of the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahaprajnaparamita_Sutra" title="Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra" >Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra</a></i>; see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra#Nattier_hypothesis" >Nattier hypothesis</a>below.
 
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