In my review of Ji Yun's article on the Heart Sutra (01 June 2018) , I noted that, in section 7, in discussing the work of Chén Jiǔchén...

Introduction In his writings, D. T. Suzuki seems obsessed by the unwelcome presence of a magical spell in his beloved Heart Sutra . From a l...

We're making slow progress on the Aṣṭa, but both enjoying the process and nutting out some tricky passages. I want to highlight anot...

"[The Dhāraṇī Chapter is] a nother later addition probably when Dhāraṇī was extensively taken into the body of Buddhist literature ...

The material in this essay has been rewritten, peer-reviewed, and published as Attwood, Jayarava. (2017). ‘Epithets of the Mantra’ in the...