Do you recognize these very popular Chinese Singers who had taken refuge with the three Jewels and are students of Tibetan Buddhism?

To download their actual performance in Cantonese (a musical version of the Heart Sutra) in MP3 format, click here: free MP3 download. Follow the instructions on the website to choose your favourite singer.

For Westerners who do not understand Cantonese, I am giving the English translation of the lyrics as follows:

The Heart Sutra:

When the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara was meditating on the profound prajna-paramita, he perceived that all the five aggregates are void and empty, and he was thereupon freed from all sufferings and calamities. Sariputra, form is not different from voidness and voidness is not different from form: form is voidness and voidness is form. Such is also the case with sensation, perception, discrimination and consciousness. Sariputra, all these things are void in nature having neither beginning nor end, being neither pure nor impure, and having neither increase nor decrease. Therefore, in voidness there is no form, no sensation, no perception, no discrimination and no consciousness; there is no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body and no mind; there is no sight, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch and no mental process; there is no category of eye nor is there a category of consciousness; no ignorance nor the cessation of ignorance; no old age and death, nor the cessation of old age and death; there is no suffering, no causes of suffering, no cessation of suffering, and no way leading to the cessation of suffering; and there is no wisdom, nor anything to be gained. As nothing is to be gained, a Bodhisattva depending on prajna-paramika becomes free in his mind, and as he is free in his mind he has no fear and is rid of dreamlike thoughts of unreality and enjoys ultimate Nirvana. By means of prajna-paramika all Buddhas of the past, the present and the future realize anuttara-samyak-sambodhi. Therefore, we know prajna-paramika is a great devine spell, a great enlightening spell, a supreme spell, and a spell without a parallel, that can do away with all sufferings without fail. Thus we recite the Prajna-paramika Spell and say: Gate, gate paragate, parasamgate bodhl, svaha!

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