The Heart Sutra by Tanahashi, Kazuaki -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Notes to the Reader Publisher’s Note Part One: The Heart Sutra Here and Now

1. A New Translation 2. Encountering the Enigma 3. Inspiration of the Sutra

Part Two: Story of the Sutra

4. Pilgrimage to the West 5. A Tiny Text by a Giant Translator 6. Talisman of Talismans 7. In Print for One Thousand Years 8. An Ancient Tower Resurrected

Part Three: Modern Scholarship (19th and 20th Centuries)

9. The Earliest Mahayana Scripture 10. Prajna Paramita as the Basis for the Heart Sutra 11. Versions of the Chinese Heart Sutra 12. Versions of the Hridaya

Part Four: Most Recent Scholarship (1992–Present)

13. A Chinese Apocryphal Text? 14. Thoughts on the Apocryphon Theory 15. Roles of Ancient Chinese Translators 16. Emergence and Expansion of the Heart Sutra

Part Five: Globalizing the Sutra

17. Chinese Enthusiasm 18. The Pan-Asian Experience 19. Japanese Interpretations 20. Scriptwise 21. Rituals in the Western World 22. Scientific Thinking

Part Six: Terms and Concepts

Appendices

1. Texts for Comparison

Earlier Texts Shorter Texts Longer Texts

2. Identical Expressions in the Chinese Texts 3. Names in Ideography

Notes Selected Bibliography Index of Names Index of Terms and Syllables E-mail Sign-Up

Chief Librarian: Las Zenow <zenow@riseup.net>
Fork the source code from gitlab.