In this post, I will show that the extended Heart Sutra text T254 is a lightly redacted or edited version of T253, rather than an independ...

After twelve years of research and a year-long editorial process, my revised editions of the Heart Sutra in Chinese and Sanskrit have now ...

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

One of the complaints that we most often see in response to the Chinese origins thesis is that it sounds implausible, or as one senior Japan...

This post is a first attempt to sum up my close reading of the extended Heart Sutra that spanned eight posts, over which I worked my way th...