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The Heart Sutra is perhaps the most famous Buddhist text, traditionally regarded as a potent expression of emptiness and of the Buddha's perfect wisdom. This brief, seemingly simple work was the subject of more commentaries in Asia than any other sutra. In Elaborations on Emptiness , Donald... read more
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IT MAY SEEM SURPRISING that as late as the eleventh century Indian commentators still felt compelled to discuss the referent of the "I" of "Thus did I hear" (evam maya srutam) at the beginning of Mahayana sutras.
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- Donald S. Lopez (Author)
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