Pilot Heart Sutra Korea

[cpete]

I picked up this pen over the weekend at an estate sale of a Doctor from South Korea. I recognize it as Pilot's Heart Sutra fountain pen. I haven't seen any that aren't either Sterling or the lacquer types. I am wondering about the groups or anyone who has knowledge about these style of pens thoughts about this specific pen. The characters are etched into the pen, the cap and barrel are not magnetic (the outer cap and barrel metal), it is not marked sterling anywhere. Pictures of all identifying markings are included in image. Thank you.

 

 

 

[KLscribbler]

Wow! Thank you for sharing this! I had no idea versions of the Hannya Shingyo / Heart Sutra pens were made by Pilot Korea as well. Learned something new today.

 

Will watch this thread with interest, hopefully someone else can chime in with more info.

[MalcLee]

I believe peerless1 had posted a response somewhere in the depths of this forum about this make, here we go:-

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/32436-rare-pilot-custom-buddhist-scripture-fountain-pen-1973/

[AAAndrew]

That's pretty cool. My minor in college and graduate school was Buddhist Studies (BA in Asian Studies, MA and ABD in Ancient Chinese Art History)

 

The Heart Sutra is a very standard, i.e. commonly read and quoted, religious text among many Buddhists. It might be like the Sermon on the Mount for Christians. It's known by everyone, quoted often, referenced all the time. As others have said, it is printed onto just about anything you can imagine. Just look up Heart Sutra in Google and click on "images" to get some idea. You'll also see it in the original Sanskrit, in Pali, in Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, English, etc...

 

Never knew these existed. Thanks for sharing. Hope you find out which version this one is.

[da vinci]

A really nice pen, thanks for sharing.

 

I am becoming drawn to these pens, I think the design is excellent.