The religious history of Xuanzang sees him going from triumph to triumph, hobnobbing with emperors, and generally being success...

For the longest time it was assumed that the Heart Sutra was composed in India, a product of the larger Prajñāpāramitā movement. The c...

In my 2019 article on Xuanzang and the Heart Sutra , I argued that is was implausible for Xuanzang to have been involved in any clandesti...

Serendipity is a wonderful thing. On 17 July, 2019, I discovered by chance that the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Cambrid...