Zhìshēn 智詵 (609 – 702 CE) is little known in the English-speaking world. A key source for his biography is the  Lìdài fǎbǎo jì «歷代法寶記» ...

I have almost no interest in popular translations, or commentaries, since these all repeat the same mistakes and result in cliches that I kn...

Revision 2.0 - 3 May 2015 My Pāḷi reading group has been working through the commentary to the Kāraṇiya Metta Sutta which I translated...

Xīnjīng One of the important conclusions of Jan Nattier's 1992 article on the Heart Sutra was that the traditional dates ascribed t...