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A Chant Card for the Heart Sutra


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Heart Sutra Center

A four-sided Chant Card for the Heart Sutra, the Prajnaparamita
used for services at the SFZC in it's early days - when it was just the ZC, Zen Center.

Two-sided chant card ---------------- View the English only

This card was printed for the May 20, 1962 Shinsanshiki, or Mountain Seat Ceremony, officially installing Suzuki as the abbot of Sokoji, the Soto Zen temple at 1881 Bush Street in San Francisco.
Thanks to Ken Spiker for saving it all these years and sending us this scan.-DC)