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Index
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
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
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