《心经》英文版

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以下就是他翻译的《般若波罗蜜多心经》全文。请注意,这是他从梵文原文直接翻译的学术性译本,用词精准,富有哲理意味。

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The Heart Sutra

Translated by Edward Conze

(般若波罗蜜多心经)

Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva who is moving in the deep course of the Wisdom which has gone beyond,
He looked down from on high,He beheld but five heaps, and He saw that in their own-being they were empty.

(观自在菩萨,行深般若波罗蜜多时,照见五蕴皆空,度一切苦厄。)

Here, O Sariputra, form is emptiness, and the very emptiness is form;
Emptiness does not differ from form,form does not differ from emptiness;
Whatever is emptiness,that is form;
The same is true of feelings,perceptions, impulses and consciousness.

(舍利子,色不异空,空不异色,色即是空,空即是色,受想行识,亦复如是。)

Here, O Sariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness;
They are not produced or stopped,not defiled or immaculate, not deficient or complete.

(舍利子,是诸法空相,不生不灭,不垢不净,不增不减。)

Therefore, O Sariputra, in emptiness there is no form, nor feeling, nor perception, nor impulse, nor consciousness;
No eye,ear, nose, tongue, body, mind; No forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touchables or objects of mind;
No sight-organ element,and so forth, until we come to: no mind-consciousness element;
There is no ignorance,no extinction of ignorance, and so forth, until we come to: there is no decay and death, no extinction of decay and death;
There is no suffering,no origination, no stopping, no path;
There is no cognition,no attainment, and non-attainment.

(是故空中无色,无受想行识,无眼耳鼻舌身意,无色声香味触法,无眼界,乃至无意识界。无无明,亦无无明尽,乃至无老死,亦无老死尽。无苦集灭道,无智亦无得。)

Therefore, O Sariputra, it is because of his non-attainmentness that a Bodhisattva, through having relied on the perfection of wisdom, dwells without thought-coverings.
In the absence of thought-coverings he has not been made to tremble,he has overcome what can upset, and in the end he attains to Nirvana.

(以无所得故,菩提萨埵,依般若波罗蜜多故,心无挂碍,无挂碍故,无有恐怖,远离颠倒梦想,究竟涅槃。)

All those who appear as Buddhas in the three periods of time, fully awake to the utmost, right and perfect Enlightenment because they have relied on the perfection of wisdom.

(三世诸佛,依般若波罗蜜多故,得阿耨多罗三藐三菩提。)

Therefore one should know the prajnaparamita as the great spell, the spell of great knowledge, the utmost spell, the unequalled spell, allayer of all suffering, in truth — for what could go wrong?
By the prajnaparamita has this spell been delivered.It runs like this:

(故知般若波罗蜜多,是大神咒,是大明咒,是无上咒,是无等等咒,能除一切苦,真实不虚。故说般若波罗蜜多咒,即说咒曰:)

Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, O what an awakening, all-hail!

(揭谛,揭谛,波罗揭谛,波罗僧揭谛,菩提萨婆诃。)

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关于康泽译本特点的说明:

1. 学术精确性:康泽是学者,他的译本力求最大限度地忠实于梵文原典的语义和哲学概念。例如,他将“五蕴”直译为“five heaps”,将“诸法”译为“all dharmas”。
2. 关键句“色即是空”:他的翻译“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.” 已成为英语世界中最经典、最被广泛接受的译法之一。
3. 咒语翻译:他采用了意译的方式翻译结尾的咒语(“Gone, gone, gone beyond…”),旨在传达其哲学含义(“度向彼岸”),而不是仅仅音译。这与很多只做音译的版本不同。
4. 可读性:虽然用词学术,但整体行文流畅且富有诗意和力量感。

这个译本非常适合希望深入理解《心经》哲学内涵的读者和研究人士。

如果您需要其他更现代或更偏向修行诵念的英文译本(例如Thich Nhat Hanh的译本),我也可以为您提供。

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