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A Study on the Heart Sūtra's Descriptive Account of Emptiness (Śūnyatā): A Text-Functional Analysis of How Emptiness Is Concretely Explained

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CLChungsam LeeSpectral Imaging Laboratory (United States)

Key Points

  • The central aim is to analyze how the Heart Sūtra describes emptiness through its textual mechanisms.
  • Textual analysis focusing on the Heart Sūtra's internal structure
  • Examination of descriptive techniques that prevent reification
  • Discussion of specific narrative strategies like parallel negation and dharma-emptiness
  • The Heart Sūtra uses structures to block cognitive fixation on emptiness
  • It employs descriptive strategies that shift understanding from abstract concepts to performative transformation
  • Finds that traditional interpretations overlook the text's functional organization

Abstract

본 논문은 반야심경이 공(空)을 어떠한 방식으로 서술하는지를 텍스트 내부 구조에 근거하여 분석한다. 공을 존재론적 명제나 추상적 개념으로 규정하기보다, 본 연구는 텍스트가 설명력을 유지하면서 동시에 실체화를 차단하는 내부 장치에 주목한다. 논의는 삼중 병렬 부정 구조, 법공상 진술, 무(無) 연쇄, 무소득과 심의 전환 장치 등을 중심으로 전개된다. 이를 통해 반야심경이 공을 단순히 선언하는 것이 아니라, 인지적 고착을 해체하고 수행적 전환을 유도하는 구조적 서술 전략을 채택하고 있음을 밝힌다. 본 연구는 기존의 교리적·형이상학적 독해와 달리, 텍스트 기능 분석을 통해 반야심경의 서술 구조 자체를 논증 대상으로 삼는다. This paper examines how the Heart Sūtra describes emptiness (śūnyatā) through its internal textual structure. Rather than defining emptiness as an ontological thesis or abstract concept, the study focuses on the mechanisms by which the text blocks reification while maintaining explanatory force. The argument traces the triple parallel negation structure, the statement of dharma-emptiness, the extended negation chain (無), and the shift toward non-attainment and mind. It demonstrates that the Heart Sūtra does not merely assert emptiness, but employs a structurally embedded descriptive strategy that dissolves cognitive fixation and induces a performative transformation. Distinct from doctrinal or metaphysical interpretations, this study foregrounds the functional organization of the text itself as the primary object of analysis.

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Chungsam Lee (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/699e9166f5123be5ed04eeafhttps://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/2893
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