The Heart Sutra Explained
, by Donald S. Lopez Jr.- ISBN: 9780887065897 | 0887065899
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 11/15/1987
Renowned for its terse declaration of the perfection of wisdom, the Heart Sutra is the most famous of Buddhist scriptures. The author draws on previously unexamined commentaries, preserved only in Tibetan, to investigate the meanings derived from and invested into the sutra during the later period of Indian Buddhism.