Common sutras

The Heart Sutra, Hokke Sutra, etc. are often recited by various denominations. (However, I don't think they recited sutras in the Jodo system)

2500 and 2600 years since the Buddha. Even though it has been handed down in various forms, each denomination still firmly inherits the teachings from the Buddha.

There is a saying, don't repeat the Sutra.
If you read the sutras deeply, in the end, you will all be “doing that there.”
It's just that you can stay as it is.
No matter what happens, being able to stay there calmly can be said to be the ultimate in Buddhist practice.
A lot of people can't stay that way.
I think it would be better to do something typical of Buddhism.
You may not understand it right now, but please read the various sutras.
Ultimately, “So what is the true meaning of the Buddha's teachings?” I think we'll run into that.
Therefore, “there, just being able to do that (in plain terms, a normal mind, no heart)” can be said to be the ultimate essence of sutras.
This is called the Jozekyo.

Q “What are you doing right now?”
A “I'm just doing this here right now”
Q “What happens if I don't say that in terms of words?”
A “It's just like this. That's all.”
Q “What are you going to do concretely”
A “It's about being able to do that”
Q “How can I do that?”
A “Don't draw with your head like that, just stay there”
The heart that appears there is a sutra common to Buddhism.
That's because sutras are recipes and scores for this.
There will come a day when you will find out about this, so keep that in mind.
(it's deep)

Be sure to put your hands together (poses are slightly different).

This is a rough explanation,
In Theravada Buddhism, such as Thailand, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka, it seems that unified official sutras texts written in Pali are created and adopted.

Meanwhile, traditional Japanese Buddhism is a current of Hokuden Buddhism, and not only Indian Sanskrit texts, but also a large number of Chinese Buddhist scriptures translated in China have entered Japan.
Several people have translated the same sutra, and there are cases where there are many types of Chinese translation texts for one sutra.
Japanese Buddhism has adopted all of the Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures that came in from India via China and Korea, and Buddhist scriptures translated into Chinese as sutras. Furthermore, the texts of Southern Buddhism that have come into the modern era are also being studied.
So, in Japanese Buddhism, all of the vast sutras are sutras.
Among them, depending on the denomination, the sutras that are emphasized and the sutras that are usually used in ceremonies differ, so the details of the memorial service vary.
Even the same kanji for the same sutras may be pronounced differently depending on the denomination.

Sutras are descriptions of Buddha's sermons.
The number is said to be 84,000 varieties.
The content is varied and there is a certain degree of uniformity, but it is full of sutras with completely different content.
Among them, “which sutras do you believe in the content” is a denomination difference.

The Heart Sutra is read by many denominations in Japan.
The content is an “empty argument,” and it can be said that it is a truth that any denomination follows.

※The Heart Sutra is not recited in the Jodo Shinshu sect, but the content of the sutras is positioned as correct, and there is no change that it is one of the sutras that is important in terms of faith.

Fuyujitaku-sama

This is Kawaguchi Hidetoshi. This is my humble answer to the question.

Thank you very much for always reading hasunoha.

“Are there any unified sutras regardless of denomination?” ... Actually, there are Buddhist scriptures compiled with such a purpose.

About the Buddhist Missionary Association and the “Buddhist Scriptures”
http://www.bdk.or.jp/buddhism/index.html

What is a “Buddhist scripture”...

The important elements and parables of the teachings were selected from “sutras,” which collected true teachings preached by Buddha (Buddha = meaning an awakened person), the founder of Buddhism known as Buddha, and expressed them by replacing them with gentle everyday words.

The “Buddhist scriptures” were created with the idea that “Buddha's open teachings should be understood by everyone in the world in words that are easy to understand.”

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“Buddhist scriptures” are sometimes placed along with the Bible in a mirror drawer, even when staying at a large hotel, and it also seems that they are sold by the Buddhist Missionary Association, so please buy them if you like.

http://www.bdk.or.jp/buddhism/book01.html

Now, the teachings left by the Buddha have been handed down to the present as Buddhist scriptures in various ways. As it is called “The Eighty-Four Thousand Dharma,” Buddhism was explained as being so convenient (explained in an accurate response to each person's suffering and hesitation).

What is most basic in terms of convenience are the “Four Sacred Truths,” the four sacred truths of suffering, gathering, destruction, and abandonment.

As a representative example, we are in the midst of four hardships (birth, old age, death, love separation, grudge, hate, unrequited suffering), but those suffering have causes (causes and conditions) that lead to the consequences of that suffering, and we have suffered, and if we can do something about the causal relationships (causes and conditions) that cause that suffering, we can always eliminate suffering, and the method (Buddhism) for that purpose (Buddhism) makes full use of good, good, and convenient, and Shaku Buddha explained the religion I was impressed.

Therefore, I would be grateful if you could understand a little bit of the content of all sutras as a supplement, assuming that the contents of all sutras are explained as a basic principle.

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho