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Some Legal Aspects of the A Study in Sino-Italian Literary Facts in A Dream of Red Mansions Decadence Marián Gálik........................................72-83 Stefan Messmann ...................................61-75 Color Symbolism of Redness in Baochai Chasing Butterflies: The Dream of the Red Chamber Visual Culture in Honglou meng Wei Wu.............................................. 76-110 Kimberly Besio .....................................84-105 Index ............................................... 111-112 Index................................................106-107 POHL, “ROLE OF THE HEART SUTRA IN DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER”, IN: EJSIN 5 (2014) 9 - 20 9 The Role of the “Form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ from form. Heart Sutra in the Form is nothing but emptiness; emptiness is nothing but form.” Dream of the The message of non-duality is crucial Red Chamber to the understanding of The Dream of the Red Chamber: There is no difference Karl-Heinz Pohl between “emptiness” 空 and “form/lust” 色, no difference between “true” (reality 真) and “false” (fiction 假), no difference Abstract between Buddhist awakening and The Dream of the Red Chamber can be passion/love, no difference between read in a philosophical, that is, in a Samsara and Nirvana. Daoist/ Buddhist way: understanding the Hence, one has to go through the vanity of life by going through its fullness world of passion and love (“red dust”) in (of desires, passions and lust). order to awake to emptiness – which can Important for a Buddhist reading of also be the result of reading the book! the novel is some knowledge of the “Heart Sutra” (心经), one of the most popular and influential Buddhist Keywords scriptures in general. What are and where Mahayana Buddhism, Vimalkirti Sutra, do we find the signals to the Buddhist Non-Duality, Emptiness, Thusness meaning of the novel? Central terms and ideas of the “Heart Sutra” frame the book (in its first and last The Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou chapter), in particular the idea of Non- meng 红楼梦) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹 (c. 不二 Duality ( ), which arises from the 1715-1763), also known in English as The central passage of the “Heart Sutra”: Story of the Stone, is celebrated as the 10 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SINOLOGY 5 (2014) greatest of all classical Chinese novels, phical question: What is true and what is and this rightly so. None other matches it false? Or, as a semi-biographical novel: in its richness of content, its psychologi- what is reality (zhen 真 ) and what is cal characterization, its detailed de- fiction (jia 假)? – in the language of Goe- scription of social life of the 18th century the, the relationship between "Dichtung and its sensitivity to standards of traditio- und Wahrheit" (Fiction and Truth). nal Chinese aesthetics, such as the enjoy- ment of gardens, poetry, painting and The Daoist/Buddhist reading is cer- calligraphy. For this reason, the studies tainly one of the more fascinating ways of about the novel have become so nume- approaching the novel. Here, the central rous that they can hardly be surveyed idea is to understand the vanity of life by anymore by single researchers. going through its fullness of desires, passions and lust. Traditionally though, there are several established ways of reading the novel: as If it is to be read in this way, one a novel of manners (comparable to the Jin needs to understand the respective signals Ping Mei 金瓶梅 – The Plum in the Golden in the novel which is a demanding task, Vase1); as a chronicle of the decline of a particularly for a Western audience not wealthy family (like Thomas Mann’s Bud- too familiar with the respective back- denbrooks) including a political-historical ground. For non-native readers, the book frame of reference (and respective hidden is difficult enough for its many (untrans- criticism); as a sad love story; as a novel latable) puns based on the homophony of of formation/education or coming-of-age characters, particularly in the names of (what is called in German: Entwicklungsro- protagonists which are based on the man / Bildungsroman);