Publisher's Synopsis
For this new English translation, Red Pine, award-winning translator of Chinese poetry and religious texts, has utilised various Sanskrit and Chinese versions, refined the teachings of dozens of ancient teachers together with his own commentary to offer a profound word-for-word explication. Divided into four parts and broken into 35 lines, The Heart Sutra is a wise book of deep teaching destined to become the standard edition of this timeless statement of Mahayana truth.