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I'm so glad to found this in good time as I've been trying this at home.
I bought a copy sheet of the Heart Sutra from Amazon Japan (though they are everywhere here in Japan - all stationary stores seem to have them) - so no need for tracing paper plus a cross between a fountain pen and calligraphy brush - so no dipping in ink. However, I found controlling the brush for the small scale work quite hard and my first attempt was rather messy. I also tried to do it sitting seiza on a low table and that got me tense towards the end. I will do it a bit at a time in future and try doing it on a normal table. I've done it in seiza and at normal height tables in Japan, there seems to be no rule about that.
I also found a book for tracing Buddhist images in a similar and tried doing an Amida Buddha image yesterday - the pen seems to be better suited for this, at least in my hands. buddhist picture copying book.jpgamida copy 1.jpg
It all looks so good! For mine I used a fine point Sharpie, but I also have a small calligraphy type brush that I'll try next. About halfway through I started to wonder if I was even right side up, but since I can't read it anyways I figured it didn't much matter! Thank you Geika for the video, and Jundo for the in depth discussion, and all others for the inspiration!
Didn't realise we had this practice group until I just looked around the forum after doing some myself. I bought a pack from Taobao a few days ago, as I'm trying the learn the Heart Sutra in Chinese and thought it would be a good way to help with that. Also, my Chinese writing is generally terrible, so want to improve it as well. I just wrote the sutra out whilst having a recording of the Heart Sutra playing in the background. Not a great first attempt, but enjoyed the process
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