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The Heart Sutra is Buddhism in a nutshell. It has had the most profound and wide-reaching influen...

In 1989, Bill Porter, having spent much of his life studying and translating Chinese religious an...

A pocket-sized presentation of the 3 most venerated sutras of Zen Buddhism-the Heart Sutra, Diamo...

Zen Buddhism is often said to be a practice of mind-to-mind transmission without reliance on text...

The Platform Sutra occupies a central place in Zen (Ch'an) Buddhist instruction for students and ...

A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Althoug...

This unique collection presents the verse, much of it translated for the first time, of fourteen ...

'The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse [is] a tough-spirited book of enlightened free verse.'-Kyoto Jo...

9 new translations of essential Buddhist texts from the first thousand years of Zen-presented in ...

Having translated The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra, and following with The Platform Sutra, R...

After a failed push for political reform, the T'ang era's greatest prose-writer, Liu Tsung-yuan, ...