(Hybrid: In-person) Buddhist Sadhana: The Heart Sutra

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Christopher Key Chapple

Location Hill Street Center
Experience Levels All
This class is a donation based class. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Dates
- Sunday, October 26, 2025 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM PT

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This event is the in-person version of a hybrid class series which will take place both in-person and online. To register for the online version, please click here.

The teaching of Emptiness (Sunyata) has long intrigued global philosophers. In this five week ten hour course we will examine the Heart of Perfect Wisdom or Prajnaparamita Hrdaya Sutra. Step by step, it urges the elimination of attachment to body, mind states, and even the adoption of a “spiritual” identity. We will memorize the Rochester Zen Center English language version of the text and listen to and watch its recitation in Sanskrit, Tibetan, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.

Schedule: Sundays, 8am to 10am PT at the Hill Street Center.
October 26
November 2, 9, 16, and 23

Suggested donation: $150 – $200. Please offer the highest amount you can afford.

Christopher Key Chapple

Christopher Key Chapple is Doshi Distinguished Clinical Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He has published nearly thirty books, many on various aspects of Buddhist faith and practice. Chris began Zazen at age 13 under the guidance of the Zen... Read more

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