The Mantra Which Calms All Suffering

Semi-cursive script

15" x 27"
40 x 69 cm

Private collection

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This artwork brings alive the mystic spell of the heart sutra. In the calligraphy the mantra flows like energy-waves creating a soft rhythm that invites the viewer to join the vibration of the mantra.

In the heart sutra it says:

Therefore the mantra of transcendent knowledge, the mantra of deep insight, the unsurpassed mantra, the incomparable mantra, the mantra which calms all suffering should be known as truth, for there is no deception. In transcendent knowledge the mantra is proclaimed:

GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA

Japanese rendering of the mantra:

GYATEI GYATEI HARA GYATEI HARASO GYATEI BOJI SOWAKA

English rendering of the mantra:

GONE, GONE, GONE BEYOND, COMPLETELY GONE BEYOND,ENLIGHTENMENT, HAIL